The first objective - elaboration of a national ECD policy - gave rise to a participatory, two-year long process of preparation.
The research protocol involves the following steps: 1. identification of the study objective through the elaboration of a project summary report; 2.
identification of the study objective through the elaboration of a project summary report; definition of procedures for data collection and assignation of tasks to each member of the working group.
The secondary objective focussed on the elaboration of additional evidence concerning internal consistency of items within scales and test-retest reliability at scale level of the German version of the Multidimensional Pain Inventory.
MdBG: participated in the elaboration of the objective and design of the study, interpretation of data and writing the paper.
CRMA-J: participated in the elaboration of the objective, design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data and writing the paper; ELCS: participated in recruitment of subjects, acquisition of data and collecting blood and urine samples; MdFBdM: participated in the processing and analysis of blood and urine samples.
This subjective impression seems to be supported by the more objective group scores for interaction, elaboration and group activity in the online questionnaires, although analysis of student participation in the weekly learning activities still showed individual variation in the use of the student discussion boards as previously discussed.
Finally, along the process described, most of the methodological and institutional innovations result from a process of intellectual and collective elaboration with clear objectives.
Notably, decision makers are involved in the elaboration of research objectives, the choice of the methodology, and the analysis and interpretation of results.
We have adopted and recommended a pragmatic approach for schoolchildren, with the focused objective of modifying brushing skills, without excessive elaboration of dental knowledge education [ 8].
