The DISC is a highly structured respondent-based interview for children [ 50].
The assessment, a cross-sectional descriptive study, collected data through structured respondent interviews among faculty, students in health training institutions, key informants and desk review.
An overview of the most important outcomes for the study aims of the JOiN study is listed in Table 2. To determine symptoms of alcohol, cannabis and other drug abuse and dependence, based on DSM- IV criteria, a highly structured respondent-based interview, the NIMH Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children (DISC) was applied.
Large survey data, including national surveys, have a hierarchical or clustered structure; respondents are naturally clustered in geographical units (e.g., health regions) and may be grouped into smaller units.
As our primary interest was in seeking care at formal health care structures, respondents reporting that they sought care or intended to seek care at a fixed or mobile pharmacy or drug merchant, or those intending to seek care from family, friends and traditional healers were considered as not intending to seek consultation.
In the interviews (which are face-face and semi-structured) respondents are asked to complete the questionnaire in the presence of an interviewer who notes any obvious difficulties or hesitation over specific items.
Interviewers asked structured questions related to respondents' recent experience with pandemic (H1N1) 2009.
Female interviewers carried out structured interviews at the respondents' home on socio-economic condition, reproductive health, maternity care, PPH, and use of misoprostol.
The Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life-Direct Weight (SEIQoL-DW) is a theory based [ 10] structured interview during which respondents nominate 5 life domains that are most important to their own QOL [ 11].
Relatively few of the respondents identified "structured review of medical records" (30%), "patient safety culture surveys" (26%), "information from various quality registers" (26%) and "research and scientific articles about patient safety" (19%) as very important factors.
The draft questionnaire was administered using concurrent cognitive probing, in which respondents answered the tested questions as the interviewer read them, and interviewers also administered structured probes that assessed how respondents interpreted key questions or phrases and how they selected questionnaire responses.
