To facilitate distribution, the envelopes were hand delivered by one of the researchers or a hospital research collaborator to the nurse managers of the participating wards, who then accepted responsibility for distribution to all nurses in their respective areas.
The study brought together a team of social work researchers, collaborators and partners to consider community-based disaster recovery practices in six countries – Canada, Australia, USA, India, Pakistan, and Taiwan.
Researchers, collaborators and patients within the host study are active agents, and there were suggestions that 'resentful demoralisation' [ 23] might occur in studies or sites which did not receive a favoured intervention like a financial incentive.
The researcher and collaborator team members have been selected based on their expertise and the required qualities to successfully carry out this project.
The researcher and collaborator team members have already agreed to divide the work efficiently into stages (study identification and selection, data charting and analysis, dissemination of results), which will facilitate the overall completion of the project.
These tables will also be used by the whole research team (researchers and collaborators) to develop and verify the conclusions.
Presently these are nine PhD students, one research assistant and several senior researchers as collaborator.
The interview guides will be developed by researchers and collaborators on the research team who will draw on the interview guides developed in the study by Noiseux [ 2].
Can we make doctoral researchers better collaborators?
The team works closely internally, and as partners, with academic researchers, industry collaborators and clinicians, as well as device regulatory specialists.
