A sampling procedure and questionnaire was designed to characterise determinants of silvopastoral practices.
On February 11 , 2009 the Rio de Janeiro bid committee delivered its Candidature File to the IOC in Lausanne and, eight days later, to the International Paralympic Committee IPCC) in Bonn, Germany; containing the responses to the 2016 Candidature Procedure and Questionnaire, as well as guarantees and undertakings.
The study procedure and questionnaire were approved by the local Ethics Committee of Basle (EKBB), Switzerland, and all procedures conformed to the Declaration of Helsinki.
The procedure and questionnaire used were identical between the two cities.
In a pilot study among 32 GPs, the quality of care measurement instruments (audit procedure and questionnaire) were tested.
Study description, the informed consent procedure, and questionnaire administration were all done orally in English or French, which are widely spoken as second languages in the study villages.
The study protocol presenting the inclusion criteria, collecting procedure and questionnaire to be administered to all people involved in the project, was submitted to and approved by the Ethical Committee of the National Institute on Research and Care of the Elderly (INRCA, Italy).
We postulate that the diversity of clinical presentations, patient objectives, and complexity of the pathophysiology of endometriosis mandates rigorous attention to study design and standardization of procedures and questionnaires that has heretofore been overlooked in the pursuit of clinical markers of this enigmatic disease.
This was a large and challenging study and therefore the procedures and questionnaires had to be kept as simple as possible.
A pilot study was conducted to test all procedures and questionnaires.
