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Positive aspects
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“It gives a good visual cue”
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“It gives you the confidence to write a good proposal as it is a good starting point”
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“The checklist reinforced the importance of the big picture rather than a selective focus”
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“It is a very useful tool and has a good outline and structure”
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“The checklist enables you to be more explicit about what to write in research proposals and it clarifies the question”
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“The main question summarises the important core to our research proposals”
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“It is very applicable to the current proposal currently being worked on, especially as there is lots of patients and workforce information”
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“I would certainly read over to match this with the research proposals… and would download it off the website”
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“We used it in our meeting to write the full proposal…the team really liked it!”
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“The checklist was helpful, particularly in thinking through the many and varied aspects of context”
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“Depending on the proposal content, for instance if it was an intervention study, I would access and use it”
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“The most useful box was the contextual information, not many of those details would have been added if the box was not there”
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Concerns and suggestions for improvement
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“A weighting might be useful”
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“Another box which could be added is data sources, for instance who collected it, is there anything unique and the measurement of the outcomes”
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“Maybe it should be used at the initial outline proposal stages?”
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“To improve the checklist need to include points on which other groups are likely to be affected by the change in service delivery”
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“If the language used was more generic i.e., not focussed towards intervention studies it could be more widely employed”
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“The checklist should fit on one page, anything bigger than that would probably put people off from reading it”
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“It would take too long to fill out”
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