Participants | Number enrolled | Method | Data collected | Purpose |
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CP Coordinators | Five staff, including one each from the two focal sites | In-depth, semi-structured interviews | Interview transcripts [8 hours, 10 minutes] | Views and perspectives of primary target group |
CP Coordinators | As above plus two additional CP Coordinators | Group interview | Transcript [36 minutes] | Views and perspectives of primary target group |
CReps | Ten key informant volunteers | In-depth, semi-structured interviews | Interview transcripts [11 hours 19 minutes] | Views and perspectives of secondary target group |
Health service staff members | Nineteen purposively sampled clinicians and managers | In-depth, semi-structured interviews | Interview transcripts [15 hours 23 minutes] | Views and perspectives of secondary target group |
Attendees at hospital committees | Members at ten meetings (10–15 members at each) | Non-participant observation | Recording & fieldnotes [10 hours, 58 minutes] | Interactions, issues discussion, resolutions, action points |
Attendees at Community Network Meetings | Members at eleven meetings [6–10 CReps and 1–3 staff at each] | Non-participant and participant observations | Recording & fieldnotes [15 hours, 17 minutes] | Interactions, issues discussion, resolutions, action points |
Attendees at CRep Council Meetings | Members at five meetings [15–20 CReps and 1-3staff at each] | Non-participant and participant observations | Recording & fieldnotes [9 hours, 12 minutes] | Interactions, issues discussion, resolutions, action points |
Attendees at CP Coordinator Meetings | Members at four meetings [5–9 CP Coordinators at each] | Non-participant and participant observations | Recording & fieldnotes [6 hours, 55 minutes] | Interactions, issues discussion, resolutions, action points |
Attendees at end of year, full day district Community Participation Conferences | Members at two meetings [Approx 70 attendees at each] | Non-participant observations | Recordings & fieldnotes [two full days of 14 hours combined] | Interactions, issues, presentations, discussion, resolutions, action points |
Totals | 36 group and individual interviews, and over 30 CReps and 60 staff directly observed | 56 hrs 22 mins: formal observation | ||
36 hrs 18 mins: interviews |