Instead, practical methods demonstrated to be important in community-based research including reliance on and respect for the clinic infrastructure and staff, hiring culturally sensitive staff, and maintaining rapport and sensitivity to participant experiences were used.
This is not good for all patients, and certainly not good for adolescents presenting with sensitive conditions; because without adequate time, good rapport building, good history taking and examination, and education and counselling are difficult to do.
Nor is Frank particularly sensitive to Phyllis's unease at the instant rapport established between him and the welcoming Joyce.
The initial questions on personal details were easily answered, and encouraged the development of a rapport before proceeding to the more sensitive questions.
In order to accomplish this successfully, CHWs should be culturally sensitive, with an ability to build a strong community rapport.
Other systems have taken a similar approach to virtual congeniality, such as the "Sensitive Artificial Listener," the Computer Expression Recognition Toolbox, and the Rapport Agent, which, according to a paper published in 2007, set out to "to provide the nonverbal listening feedback associated with rapportful interactions".
As reported in other work (11), GPs were also concerned that there was no time within a typical consultation to build sufficient rapport with the young person to discuss this sensitive issue.
Open or semi-structured in-depth interviews are more flexible and enable detailed probing; they help to establish closer rapport with interviewees, thus potentially facilitating access to more sensitive topics.
Rapport between stage and eight-strong band, under Sean Green's sensitive direction, is both subtle and lively – notes pling as flung beans hit the ground.
Other researchers have suggested that sharing a similar background helps participants build better rapport with the interviewers and increases the likelihood of discussing sensitive topics more openly [ 22].
