Topics probed in the interviews included caregiver-companion roles, IPCs' and others' interaction with caregiver-companions, and potential health and safety risks posed to medical tourists and caregiver-companions. Thematic analysis of the verbatim transcripts was employed.
When this topic was probed, it was often difficult to distinguish between a woman being sexually satisfied versus her being satisfied that she had sexually satisfied her partner.
Exploring multiple child illness concepts in focus group discussions in some instances led to informant fatigue, as a result of which not all topics were probed evenly.
Semi-structured interview guide was used which had topics and probing questions focusing on women experience of living with obstetric fistula.
An open-ended interview guide was used, with topics and probing questions focusing on background and experiences of living with obstetric fistula for each of the women surveyed.
It included topics and probing questions on women's social and demographic background, and on their experiences of seeking and receiving care during the process of labour and birth.
Questions around emerging themes probed topics initiated by the interviewee in the early narrative and anticipated themes examined topics from existing literature.
For example, RNAi screens in mammalian cell culture assays successfully probed topics as diverse as embryonic stem cell self-renewal, West Nile virus infection and various aspects of cancer progression [5], [6], [7], [8], [9].
The collective response was a nonchalant who cares, with all agreeing that the topic has been overly probed in the media.
A fourth theme, work environment interventions, was described in positive terms by some of the informants, but this topic had to be probed to generate a response and descriptions were two-edged.
