Area | Potential solutions |
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Interview process | Guaranteeing privacy and confidentiality |
Detailed and comprehensive consent | |
Using language respondent is comfortable with and the interviewer is fluent in (most commonly used language) | |
Realistic number of interviews per interviewer each day | |
Interviewer training | Development of enhanced training module for interviewers, with prospective assessment to understand its effect |
Interactive and reciprocal training that involves the experienced interviewers sharing their strategies to make respondents more comfortable and open up | |
Classroom and field practice interviews | |
Thorough training of interviewers to ensure in-depth understanding of the study and ability to explain its purpose to others | |
Interviewer skills, strategies and knowledge | Interviewer sensitivity to cultural semantics and taboos |
Building rapport | |
Probing skills | |
Empathy | |
Sensitivity | |
Understanding of psycho-social impact of grief | |
Skills in interviewing adolescents | |
Selecting interviewers from the same jurisdiction (though not the actual villages in which they will work) | |
Tools | Translation of tools using accurate and culturally recognised definitions e.g. of the different APOs |
Contextual adaptation guide to ensure more accurate and consistent reporting in different cultures and languages | |
Shorter tools | |
Respondents and community | Conducting sensitisation before the study begins, including a clear explanation on purpose, benefits and any incentives to be given |
Consent from different gate keepers | |
Provision of feedback on the study |