Interviewer training involved a 2-3-hour session on the processes of interviewing, rationale for the study, cancer treatment modalities, questionnaire items, and confidentiality.
As the stakeholders we interviewed have explicitly stated during the interviews, the rationale for PAC services re-design was not only well-understood but also actively supported.
The rationale for selecting these staff members to interview was that we believed they were in the best position to comment on the process, barriers, and problems associated with the campaigns.
Later, Mr. Markowitz explained his rationale for the endorsement in an interview: "I have to say to myself, 'What is best for Brooklyn?' " Back at the protest, Lenny Allen, a political organizer for District Council 37, the city's largest municipal union, was especially blunt.
However, the data supporting this rationale for a change in patient interview technique are sparse.
The rationale for setting the number of interviews in qualitative research should in theory be based on the concept of saturation [ 38].
All respondents for the interviews provided individual informed consent for the interviews after the rationale for the study and the benefits were explained to them.
The rationale for selecting those five features of interview questions were: first, these five features were adopted in the primary science curriculum framework in Singapore, and second, these five features were also used as a framework for data analysis in two previous studies (Kang, Orgill, & Crippen, 2008; Tan et al., 2014).
The rationale for conducting this number of exit interviews is from the WHO manual, "How to investigate drug use in health facilities" which recommends 600 encounters (20 facilities and 30 patients/prescriptions per facility) for one survey [ 10].
The rationale for administering the questionnaire after the interview, and not before, was to avoid receiving too spontaneous, and maybe not fully reflected and/or poorly articulated, answers from the respondents' learning experience.
