The specific objectives for feasibility evaluation were to assess selected indicators for recruitment and participation, completion of data collection, realization of the intervention and public health nurses' experiences on implementing the study protocol.
All studies included in this systematic review reported that consent was obtained from all participants regarding their participation and publication of data.
Following informed consent (for participation and use of data in publications), participants took part in semi-structured interviews lasting 30min to 2 hours (on average 45 60min), conducted by Felicity Callard and Jody Quigley (both social scientists).
Information of actual participation to screening, data of incident cancers and detailed information of tumour characteristics have provided more precise information of breast cancer prognosis in the screened and not-screened patients (Ernst et al, 2004).
All participants gave verbal consent, which included assurance of voluntary participation and confidentiality of data.
The rates of participation of women in data collection at each data point, however, ranged from 67.7percentt at 1 month postnatal to 51.4percentt at 24 months postnatal.
University administrations have no control over the process of evaluation, meaning schools would find it difficult to try to "game" the process by manipulating student participation (accurate reporting of data is an issue with any ranking that uses self-reported data, such as the popular US News & World Report rankings).
Practice participation and uploading of data to the central server is voluntary.
The components of the feasibility evaluation were 1) recruitment and participation, 2) completion of data collection, 3) realization of the intervention and 4) the public health nurses' experiences.
Respondents received an explanation about the purpose of the survey, the voluntary nature of their participation, the privacy of data, and the anonymity of respondents and family members in a language that they were comfortable with.
They were informed by the research team in written and oral form about the voluntary nature of participation, anonymity and confidentiality of data, emphasizing that participation would neither influence the health care situation nor the asylum procedure or residence status.
