For certain components of PTSS which had heretofore only been proved for effectiveness in industrialized countries, staff were encouraged to monitor their acceptability to local populations.
Most published literature regarding health apps has focused on preventing and managing chronic disease [9, 10], monitoring app acceptability and utility [11 14], and qualitative studies of user experience and desired functions [15 18].
Process evaluations of health care interventions have also broken down complex interventions into component parts and monitored the acceptability, implementation and impact of each part [ 10, 11].
Whitehead (1992) argues that it is only by monitoring the acceptability of care provision with service users that equity of service delivery can truly be measured [ 37].
During the treatment period, participants will also be required to record their medication intake, including trial interventions and occurrence of adverse events to assist with compliance monitoring and acceptability of intervention.
There was general agreement that, in addition to detailed consent procedures and clear methods for monitoring patients, acceptability would be enhanced if the trial were brief, and the post-trial disclosure of high quality: "I think the full disclosure of information at the end would go some way to persuade you in like your feelings about the wrongness of the deception.
Product acceptability was monitored by use of a modified Weibull Hazard sensory method where the end of shelf-life was the time at which 50% consumers found the product unacceptable.
The poll asked a nearly identical question to the HuffPost/YouGov poll, but prefaced it with a series of questions that included one about the acceptability of monitoring "communications from individuals suspected of terrorist activities".
To establish both the credibility and acceptability of monitoring programmes, peer-review publication of all phases is recommended [37].
