Table 3 The value of the researcher-participant relationship
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Mutual assessment of suitability | “But to understand who this person is, and as much as possible match their care to what they need, it’s also not going to help me or them if you know, it’s not a good match. So for sure, we need to take that into consideration.” [P09] “and there’s a kind of two way street, the person needs to understand that so they can commit to whatever the research protocol is, and the researcher has to understand that the person’s participating as a voluntary patient and understands what they’re getting themselves into” [P07] “Um, couple of people said to me that they felt that they were under too much stress, and that it was just something else that they didn’t want to do, so I completely backed off of that” [P09] “I realised that the patient really wasn’t mentally up to participating in a study, so I didn’t continue” [P02] |