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Item

Guide questions/Description

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Domain 1: Research team and reflexivity

Personal characteristics

1

Interviewer/facilitator

Which author/s conducted the interview or focus group?

2

Credentials

What were the researcher’s credentials? E.g. PhD, MD

3

Occupation

What was their occupation at the time of the study?

4

Gender

Was the researcher male or female?

5

Experience and training

What experience or training did the researcher have?

Relationship with participants

6

Relationship established

Was a relationship established prior to study commencement?

7

Participant knowledge of the interviewer

What did the participants know about the researcher? e.g. personal goals, reasons for doing the research

8

Interviewer characteristics

What characteristics were reported about the inter viewer/facilitator? e.g. Bias, assumptions, reasons and interests in the research topic

Domain 2: Study design

Theoretical framework

9

Methodological orientation and Theory

What methodological orientation was stated to underpin the study? e.g. grounded theory, discourse analysis, ethnography, phenomenology, content analysis

Participant selection

10

Sampling

How were participants selected? e.g. purposive, convenience, consecutive, snowball

11

Method of approach

How were participants approached? e.g. face-to-face, telephone, mail, email

12

Sample size

How many participants were in the study?

13

Non-participation

How many people refused to participate or dropped out? Reasons?

Setting

14

Setting of data collection

Where was the data collected? e.g. home, clinic, workplace

15

Presence of non- participants

Was anyone else present besides the participants and researchers?

16

Description of sample

What are the important characteristics of the sample? e.g. demographic data, date

Data collection

17

Interview guide

Were questions, prompts, guides provided by the authors? Was it pilot tested?

18

Repeat interviews

Were repeat inter views carried out? If yes, how many?

19

Audio/visual recording

Did the research use audio or visual recording to collect the data?

20

Field notes

Were field notes made during and/or after the inter view or focus group?

21

Duration

What was the duration of the inter views or focus group?

22

Data saturation

Was data saturation discussed?

23

Transcripts returned

Were transcripts returned to participants for comment and/or correction?

Domain 3: analysis and findings

Data analysis

24

Number of data coders

How many data coders coded the data?

25

Description of the coding tree

Did authors provide a description of the coding tree?

26

Derivation of themes

Were themes identified in advance or derived from the data?

27

Software

What software, if applicable, was used to manage the data?

28

Participant checking

Did participants provide feedback on the findings?

Reporting

29

Quotations presented

Were participant quotations presented to illustrate the themes/findings? Was each quotation identified? e.g. participant number

30

Data and findings consistent

Was there consistency between the data presented and the findings?

31

Clarity of major themes

Were major themes clearly presented in the findings?

32

Clarity of minor themes

Is there a description of diverse cases or discussion of minor themes?