To enhance data quality during fieldwork, the principal investigator relistened to audio recordings of completed transcripts and worked with transcriptionists to ensure all sections where Setswana was spoken were included in the transcribed text.
In a four year longitudinal survey on the quality of fieldwork supervision among 108 physiotherapy and occupational therapy students' in Zimbabwe, students rated their supervisors as supportive and encouraging.
The purpose of this study was to explore factors related to PCC, and investigate the association between PCC and maternal health care through an appropriate research design, a high-quality questionnaire, and fieldwork in Nanhai and Pinghu.
Building environment quality was judged by fieldwork physical environment tests, including indoor thermal, lighting, indoor air quality and acoustics data in the operating phase.
Very little documentation is provided on the methodology (e.g., sampling procedures, definitions used, duration and context of interviewer training, and supervision and daily quality control measures during fieldwork, editing, coding, and data processing).
Other measures, such as an intensive five-day training workshop prior to fieldwork or thorough quality control and monitoring throughout fieldwork, were aimed at improving interviewer performance.
Response rates can to some extent indicate issues related to the quality of data obtained through fieldwork.
In order to assure data quality, after hospital discharge a fieldwork supervisor repeated 10% of the interviews by telephone, using a short version of the questionnaire.
In all the evaluations, 10%% of the subjects will receive a telephone call from the fieldwork supervisor for quality control purposes.
To ensure the quality of data collection during fieldwork, we checked for completeness and consistency of information on the questionnaire and conducted a daily debriefing (19).
