Table 3.
CORE-Q Consolidated Criteria for Reporting Qualitative Research [68]
| No | Item | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Domain 1: Research Team and Reflexivity | ||
| Personal Characteristics | ||
| 1 | Interviewer/facilitator | Ben Harris-Roxas |
| 2 | Credentials | Master of Policy and Applied Social Research, currently enrolled in a PhD |
| 3 | Occupation | Research Fellow, University of New South Wales |
| 4 | Gender | Male |
| 5 | Experience and Training | Has undertaken several qualitative studies, trained in interviewing, qualitative analysis and using NVivo [92] |
| Relationship with participants | ||
| 6 | Relationship established | A relationship existed with all interviewees prior to the interviews |
| 7 | Participant knowledge of the interviewer | Knew the researcher has worked on HIA and health equity for several years, have had contact through other activities than the HIA described |
| 8 | Interviewer characteristics | Is doing a PhD on EFHIA |
| Domain 2: Study Design | ||
| Theoretical Framework | ||
| 9 | Methodological orientation and theory | Analysis based on a modified version of Calaizzi's framework [69] |
| Participant Selection | ||
| 10 | Sampling | Purposive |
| 11 | Method of approach | |
| 12 | Sample size | 5 |
| 13 | Non participation | 0 |
| Setting | ||
| 14 | Setting of data collection | Participants' workplaces |
| 15 | Presence of non-participants | No |
| 16 | Description of sample | A mix of those who conducted the HIA and those who were responsible for implementing its recommendations |
| Data Collection | ||
| 17 | Interview guide | Not provided in advance, piloted on 2 interviews not included in study |
| 18 | Repeat interviews | No |
| 19 | Audio/visual recording | Audio |
| 20 | Field notes | No |
| 21 | Duration | Mean 24 minutes, Range 20 minutes (min) to 33 minutes (max) |
| 22 | Data saturation | Yes, authors decided that saturation was reached after 5 interviews |
| 23 | Transcripts returned | No |
| Domain 3: Analysis and Findings | ||
| Data Analysis | ||
| 24 | Number of data coders | 3 |
| 25 | Description of the coding tree | No |
| 26 | Derivation of themes | Derived from the data |
| 27 | Software | NVivo [92] |
| 28 | Participant checking | No |
| Reporting | ||
| 29 | Quotations presented | Yes, each participant is numbered when quoted |
| 30 | Data and findings consistent | Yes |
| 31 | Clarity of major themes | Yes |
| 32 | Clarity of minor themes | No |