Positive aspects | āIt gives a good visual cueā |
āIt gives you the confidence to write a good proposal as it is a good starting pointā | |
āThe checklist reinforced the importance of the big picture rather than a selective focusā | |
āIt is a very useful tool and has a good outline and structureā | |
āThe checklist enables you to be more explicit about what to write in research proposals and it clarifies the questionā | |
āThe main question summarises the important core to our research proposalsā | |
āIt is very applicable to the current proposal currently being worked on, especially as there is lots of patients and workforce informationā | |
āI would certainly read over to match this with the research proposalsā¦ and would download it off the websiteā | |
āWe used it in our meeting to write the full proposalā¦the team really liked it!ā | |
āThe checklist was helpful, particularly in thinking through the many and varied aspects of contextā | |
āDepending on the proposal content, for instance if it was an intervention study, I would access and use itā | |
āThe 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 | āA weighting might be usefulā |
āAnother box which could be added is data sources, for instance who collected it, is there anything unique and the measurement of the outcomesā | |
āMaybe it should be used at the initial outline proposal stages?ā | |
āTo improve the checklist need to include points on which other groups are likely to be affected by the change in service deliveryā | |
āIf the language used was more generic i.e., not focussed towards intervention studies it could be more widely employedā | |
āThe checklist should fit on one page, anything bigger than that would probably put people off from reading itā | |
āIt would take too long to fill outā |