By giving scientific information about regulating and supporting services, the questionnaire seems to redefine the role of respondents, as "scientific experts" (a role which they could not reasonably fulfil).
38 It would also have been useful to analyse the role of respondents' sexual partners in the uptake of contraception.
The job role of respondents did not appear to influence the type of long-term support networks reported as available (p = 0.282, two-tailed, generalised Fisher exact test (Fisher-Freeman-Halton)), i.e. audiologists, hearing therapists and clinical managers were equally aware of their local services.
The roles of respondents were varied and included one CEO, five directors, four managers, four allied health clinicians, three registered nurses, two clerical/administrative staff, two physicians and six patients.
The reported roles of respondents within their institutions (multiple roles were allowed) included: academic / researcher (n = 27, 60%), laboratory scientist / microbiologist (n = 15, 33.3%), bioinformatician (n = 13, 28.9%), public health professional/epidemiologist (n = 10, 22.2%), clinician (n = 3, 6.7%) and infection control practitioner (n = 1, 2.2%).
The most common functional roles of respondents were health officers or health directors (39% of LHDs), preparedness coordinators (50% of LHDs, 33% of local EMS agencies, 42% of local EMS agencies within a LHD, and 90% of hospitals), and administrators (44% of local EMS agencies and 92% of local EMS agencies within a LHD).
The roles of respondents were categorised as follows: Clinicians (Doctors and Nurses) = 13 Patients/survivors = 5 Service improvement managers = 18 Informaticians = 7 Others = 5 There was a very high consensus on the usefulness of CDS in general, and MATE in particular, for cancer MDMs.
Second, note the role of the respondent's epistemic state.
Within Canada, the sex and role of the respondent were determining factors for the response distribution.
In advance of the interviews, questions were adjusted to the type of organization (NGO, UN, ICRC), country of operations, and the role of the respondent (e.g., security manager, country director).
