{"paper_id":"e166985b-5186-4bde-9de9-6b629fd06eef","body_text":"COREQ (COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative research) Checklist \n \nA checklist of items that should be included in reports of qualitative research. You must report the page number in your manuscript \nwhere you consider each of the items listed in this checklist. If you have not included this information, either revise your manuscript \naccordingly before submitting or note N/A. \n \nTopic \n \nItem No. \n \nGuide Questions/Description Reported on \nPage No. \nDomain 1: Research team \nand reflexivity  \n   \nPersonal characteristics     \nInterviewer/facilitator 1 Which author/s conducted the interview or focus group?   \nCredentials 2 What were the researcher’s credentials? E.g. PhD, MD   \nOccupation 3 What was their occupation at the time of the study?   \nGender 4 Was the researcher male or female?   \nExperience and training 5 What experience or training did the researcher have?   \nRelationship with \nparticipants  \n   \nRelationship established 6 Was a relationship established prior to study commencement?   \nParticipant knowledge of \nthe interviewer  \n7 What did the participants know about the researcher? e.g. personal \ngoals, reasons for doing the research  \n \nInterviewer characteristics 8 What characteristics were reported about the inter viewer/facilitator? \ne.g. Bias, assumptions, reasons and interests in the research topic  \n \nDomain 2: Study design     \nTheoretical framework     \nMethodological orientation \nand Theory  \n9 What methodological orientation was stated to underpin the study?  e.g. \ngrounded theory, discourse analysis, ethnography, phenomenology, \ncontent analysis  \n \nParticipant selection     \nSampling 10 How were participants selected? e.g. purposive, convenience, \nconsecutive, snowball  \n \nMethod of approach 11 How were participants approached? e.g. face-to-face, telephone, mail, \nemail  \n \nSample size 12 How many participants were in the study?   \nNon-participation 13 How many people refused to participate or dropped out? Reasons?    \nSetting    \nSetting of data collection 14 Where was the data collected? e.g. home, clinic, workplace   \nPresence of non-\nparticipants \n15 Was anyone else present besides the participants and researchers?   \nDescription of sample 16 What are the important characteristics of the sample? e.g. demographic \ndata, date  \n \nData collection     \nInterview guide 17 Were questions, prompts, guides provided by the authors? Was it pilot \ntested?  \n \nRepeat interviews 18 Were repeat inter views carried out? If yes, how many?   \nAudio/visual recording 19 Did the research use audio or visual recording to collect the data?   \nField notes 20 Were field notes made during and/or after the inter view or focus group?   \nDuration 21 What was the duration of the inter views or focus group?   \nData saturation 22 Was data saturation discussed?   \nTranscripts returned 23 Were transcripts returned to participants for comment and/or  \n\nTopic \n \nItem No. \n \nGuide Questions/Description Reported on \nPage No. \ncorrection?  \nDomain 3: analysis and \nfindings  \n   \nData analysis     \nNumber of data coders 24 How many data coders coded the data?   \nDescription of the coding \ntree \n25 Did authors provide a description of the coding tree?   \nDerivation of themes 26 Were themes identified in advance or derived from the data?   \nSoftware 27 What software, if applicable, was used to manage the data?   \nParticipant checking 28 Did participants provide feedback on the findings?   \nReporting     \nQuotations presented 29 Were participant quotations presented to illustrate the themes/findings? \nWas each quotation identified? e.g. participant number  \n \nData and findings consistent 30 Was there consistency between the data presented and the findings?    \nClarity of major themes 31 Were major themes clearly presented in the findings?   \nClarity of minor themes 32 Is there a description of diverse cases or discussion of minor themes?        \n \nDeveloped from: Tong A, Sainsbury P, Craig J. Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ): a 32-item checklist \nfor interviews and focus groups. International Journal for Quality in Health Care. 2007. Volume 19, Number 6: pp. 349 – 357 \n \nOnce you have completed this checklist, please save a copy and upload it as part of your submission. DO NOT include this \nchecklist as part of the main manuscript document. It must be uploaded as a separate file.","source_license":"CC0","license_restricted":false}