Since the aim was to produce a short questionnaire, overlapping themes were excluded as were themes related to stigma associated with help seeking and treatment, or themes which were by consensus of the six-person team not considered central to the concept of stigma.
Once this letter was received, patients received a 'light touch' visit from a member of the project team in each site, where consent was taken to (a) participate in the main trial (Theme 1) and (b) the questionnaire study (Themes 2 and 3).
Qualitative responses to questions on the post-test questionnaire provided themes to explore in a focus group interview with a convenience sample of nine participants.
During the first phase, which begins immediately after the bid submission deadline, the "applicant cities" are required to answer a questionnaire covering themes of importance to a successful Games organisation.
Two of the authors (RH and CC) independently classified the free-response comments from the questionnaire into themes.
In all, the TSPA compiled data on over 3200 indicators of service functionality from a 283 page questionnaire addressing themes about staffing patterns and availability, functioning equipment, essential drugs, and other elements of service readiness, assessed in a single episode of data compilation.
The questionnaires included themes identified through literature studies, clinical experience and group interview studies with bereaved relatives [ 5] and health professionals (CNs, GPs and hospital consultants).
Three instruments were used: (1) a closed-ended questionnaire based on themes that emerged in an analysis of the open-ended questions in the earlier study, described above (2) a subset of items from the earlier open-ended instrument, and (3) measures of visitors' beliefs, personal and demographic variables, and time spent at and interest in the exhibition.
Through analysis of the questionnaires, the IOC gave a weighted-average score to each city based on the scores obtained in each of the questionnaire's eleven themes: political and social support, general infrastructure, sports venues, Olympic Village, environment, accommodation, transport, security, past experience, finance, and legacy.
Numbers in parenthesis indicate number of responses to open questions in questionnaire corresponding to themes emerged from the interviews.
