Just as the absence of endometrial polyp in subsequent revisions of study time.
The study will comply with the CONSORT Statement [ 34] and the study protocol is published, enabling later comparison of what was originally intended with what was actually done, thus preventing both "data dredging" and post-hoc revisions of study aims.
The publication of our study protocol enables future readers to compare what was originally intended with what was actually done, thus preventing both "data dredging" and post-hoc revisions of study aims.
Revision of study design and protocol: All authors Drafting and approval of final protocol and manuscript.
Initial draft and revision of study manuscript: MMM, JWM, MGK, JCDH, XW, LWM, JGL, NLH, LHH.
DGL: Review and revision of study design and study protocol, statistical analyses, critical revisions and approval of the final manuscript version.
Following 5 days of training, including a pilot test and revision of study instruments, five Tanzanian research assistants (RAs) fluent in Swahili with graduate-level training in education, public health, and social sciences collected the qualitative data.
All authors were involved in the development and revision of study protocols and procedures discussed in this paper, which ensured the survey was completed successful and obtained a high response rate.
ZK: study concept and design, interpretation of data, manuscript writing, guarantor.ZsAT: statistical input into study design, acquisition of data, statistical analysis, manuscript revision.ZB: medical revision of study design, interpretation of data, manuscript revision.ZV: epidemiological input into study design, data analysis, review of results, interpretation, manuscript writing.
SG performed the statistical analysis and made critical revisions of the study.
Specifically, the need to obtain approval from all national regulatory bodies and ethics commissions was source of unexpected delays and called for numerous revisions of the study protocol.
