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Table 1 Perceptions of the checklist

From: Developing a checklist for research proposals to help describe health service interventions in UK research programmes: a mixed methods study

Positive aspects

ā€œIt gives a good visual cueā€

ā€œIt gives you the confidence to write a good proposal as it is a good starting pointā€

ā€œThe checklist reinforced the importance of the big picture rather than a selective focusā€

ā€œIt is a very useful tool and has a good outline and structureā€

ā€œThe checklist enables you to be more explicit about what to write in research proposals and it clarifies the questionā€

ā€œThe main question summarises the important core to our research proposalsā€

ā€œIt is very applicable to the current proposal currently being worked on, especially as there is lots of patients and workforce informationā€

ā€œI would certainly read over to match this with the research proposalsā€¦ and would download it off the websiteā€

ā€œWe used it in our meeting to write the full proposalā€¦the team really liked it!ā€

ā€œThe checklist was helpful, particularly in thinking through the many and varied aspects of contextā€

ā€œDepending on the proposal content, for instance if it was an intervention study, I would access and use itā€

ā€œThe most useful box was the contextual information, not many of those details would have been added if the box was not thereā€

Concerns and suggestions for improvement

ā€œA weighting might be usefulā€

ā€œAnother box which could be added is data sources, for instance who collected it, is there anything unique and the measurement of the outcomesā€

ā€œMaybe it should be used at the initial outline proposal stages?ā€

ā€œTo improve the checklist need to include points on which other groups are likely to be affected by the change in service deliveryā€

ā€œIf the language used was more generic i.e., not focussed towards intervention studies it could be more widely employedā€

ā€œThe checklist should fit on one page, anything bigger than that would probably put people off from reading itā€

ā€œIt would take too long to fill outā€