Identifying and recruiting key informants is a widely used sampling strategy in applied qualitative health research. Key informants were first conceptualized within ethnography, but there is little methodological guidance about how to use this technique outside of that research tradition. ...
Key informant interviews (KII) are a frequently used method to gain in-depth insights into specific health-related issues in qualitative health and other social science research. Key informants are individuals who are viewed as possessing specialized knowledge, experience, or access that is crucial ...
This paper provides the perspectives of key informants on the sexual victimisation of children with intellectual disabilities in South Africa. Data were obtained from 32 key informants by means of focus group discussions and individual interviews conducted by the researcher at six schools catering speci...
Study participants were selected based on their role in the COVID-19 response. They typical include policy makers and members of the national and regional emergency operations centres for COVID-19 response. Informants were identified and selected from national public health institutes, Nigeria centre ...
An additional round of group interviews took place with key informants at the time of the Project’s final evaluation in June 2015 to meet the Project’s research goal of assessing and documenting the challenges and advantages of implementing the CBIO+ Approach and integrating it into the work...
However, several challenges are currently faced by the ASD community relating to the development of pharmacotherapies, namely in the conduct of clinical trials. Balovaptan is a V1a receptor antagonist that has been investigated to improve social communication difficulties in individuals with ASD. In ...
The potential role of peripheral health workers and community key informants in the rapid assessment of community burden of disease: the example of lymphatic filariasis. Trop Med Int Health. 1998;3:522-8.Gyapong JO, Webber RH & Bennett S (1998a) The potential role of peripheral health ...
in schools and its status within key stakeholder groups. MEDLINE, Embase, PyschINFO, Education Research Complete, ASSIA, and Web of Knowledge were searched for relevant articles. All study types collecting acceptability UMHS in schools were included spanning three key stakeholder groups as informants...
Though choosing the appropriate key informant can help improve the accuracy of the data, multiple informants could help cross-validate the data and eliminate the possibility of common method bias. Second, we tested our hypotheses using survey data from B2B suppliers operating in Europe, which could...
Maximum variation sampling was used to recruit a diverse set of informants covering a diversity of socioeconomic characteristics such as age, gender, income, education, type of housing, location of housing, etc. [40]. In addition, recruitment of interviewees was informed by findings from methods...