Table 4 |
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| Summary of data collection | ||
| Number and nature of participants/documents | Total number of data sources (interviews, focus groups and documents) | |
| Phase 1: Single exploratory case | ||
| Interviews | Thirteen longitudinal interviews with four breast care nurses: | 15 |
| Three interviewed three times. | ||
| One interviewed four times. | ||
| Plus: one interview with a research nurse | ||
| And one interview with a charge nurse | ||
| Documents | Protocol, ethics application, monitoring reports x 2, final report, Minutes of meetings x 15, field notes of PI and researcher | 22 |
| Phase 2: Multiple explanatory case study | ||
| Interviews | Seven principal investigators and one research assistant | 8 |
| Documents | Seven trial protocols/proposals | 30 |
| Six ethics forms | ||
| Five monitoring reports | ||
| Seven final reports | ||
| Five published papers | ||
| Focus | One group with three research nurses | 9 |
| groups | One group with two nurse members of the ethics committee | |
| One group with four PIs | ||
| Total | 84 | |
PI, principal investigator.
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