For the duration of the study, those interested in applying to ChalleNGe needed to agree to also take part in the study in order to continue with the enrollment process.
The midwives were generally enthusiastic and positive about the study and interested in the outcomes.
Since the study was interested in community level intervention on attitudinal change to family planning, the questions were drafted to elicit community level constraints for family planning adoption.
After written confirmation of participation in the study by interested GPs, the project assistants visit the participating GPs personally to explain the study design, provide study instruction and gain the GPs' agreement to participate.
After written confirmation of participation in the study by interested GPs, a project assistant will visit the participating GPs personally to explain study design, provide study instruction and gain the GPs' agreement to participate.
If a woman answered at least one affirmative response to the validated screening items on physical and sexual IPV contained in the assessment, they were invited to participate in the study; those interested completed written and/or verbal informed consent.
Since the impact of these parameters is not the focus of the this study, the interested reader is referred to the existing literature [27 29] for further details.
However, as an impact of space-based neglect (such as impaired processing of relatively smaller numbers, which we were able to replicate for two-digit numbers) were not at the heart of the current study, the interested reader is referred to the Appendix for a detailed description and discussion of the observations regarding space-based impairments.
On the return form children and parents could indicate whether or not they were interested in the study; if not interested they could indicate the reason for not participating.
There is also a possibility that the referring physicians who chose to participate in the study were more interested in MPS than the 7 physicians who declined.
