We pursued a purposive sampling plan that included AHWs with a range of smoking histories (never smoked, current smoker, ex-smoker) in addition to health service managers and tobacco control personnel.
Upon the Prophet's death in 632, the caliphs, or successors, channeled the energies of the Arab Bedouin by launching them upon a purposive and organized plan of conquest.
Public infrastructure investment needs to be planned, purposive and permanent.
A purposive sample was planned, with all staff members from these cadres within selected hospitals invited to participate.
Although purposive sampling was planned for all the settings, the sample for the qualitative component for the South African setting was done conveniently because the initial purposively selected sample could not be recruited.
A purposive sampling design was adopted.
It draws on a wide range of examples, including world (mega) cities, ordinary cities and transition towns, covering most of the world's continents, to provide evidence that expectations, aspirations and plans to undertake purposive socio-technical transitions are emerging in different urban contexts.
By design, this qualitative study centered on a "deep dive" within a small, purposive sample of organizations (health plans, provider organizations, and their affiliated practices) in a particular state context.
As the analytical purpose of the synthesis was building programme theory, sampling was purposive [ 23], focusing on the perspectives of those planning and delivering stroke services.
A qualitative descriptive study design and purposive sampling was used to recruit HPs from four groups: Nurses and allied health practitioners involved in discharge planning in the acute setting, junior medical officers in acute care, general practitioners (GPs) and Residential Aged Care Facility (RACF) staff in a regional area in NSW, Australia.
