For UNICEF, it is pushing us to blend our strengths of data collection and analysis, technical expertise, policy acumen and field programming, and apply it more judiciously and effectively to fulfil our mandate to the world's most vulnerable children and families.
A second strength is the method of data collection, as the research assistant collected the data from the patient files together with the practice nurse, our data were reliable with only a low number of missing values.
CM offered a unique approach that combined the strengths of qualitative methodologies of data collection with quantitative methods of analysis to further our understanding of LTFU in ART programs in the Malawian setting.
The strengths include the prospective nature of data collection and the strong framework of research governance compared with that of previous studies.
This study has a number of strengths including the prospective nature of data collection by a full-time dedicated data collector and dedicated nurses; the collection of pharmacologic, physiologic and clinical endpoints; and the inclusion of all consecutive eligible patients during the study periods.
Other strengths include the prospective nature of data collection in one of the most unique sporting competitive environments, the Olympic Games, which provides a valuable insight into the issues suffered by high performance athletes at the pinnacle competitive event of their sporting careers.
The MT will discuss them and assess them against criteria such as validity (strength of evidence), reliability and feasibility of data collection (they should be easy to retrieve, calculate and interpret), and sensitivity to change [ 8].
One strength of this study was the quality of data collection.
As such, one of the strengths of this study is its similarity of data collection in the pregnant and referent group.
The use of validated questionnaire and triangulating both quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection were the strengths of this study.
