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Table 1 Respondents during the Delphi stage by stakeholder group

From: Priority setting to support a public health research agenda: a modified Delphi study with public health stakeholders in Germany

Stakeholder group

Invited organisations to nominate respondents for the Delphi stage

Organisations that nominated respondents for the Delphi stage

Participation

1st questionnaire (Delphi round I)

Participation

2nd questionnaire (Delphi round II)

Nr. of organisations

Nr. of organisations

Nr. of respondents

Nr. of respondents

Research and/or higher education

61 (44%)

47 (50%)

105 (52%)

98 (48%)

Administration and/or politics

35 (25%)

20 (21%)

24 (12%)

32 (16%)

Representatives of the general public

22 (16%)

11 (12%)

37 (18%)

39 (19%)

Healthcare professionals

13 (9%)

10 (11%)

8 (4%)

7 (3%)

Statutory health insurance

9 (6%)

6 (6%)

11 (5%)

13 (6%)

None of the above

n.a

n.a

4 (2%)

2 (1%)

Missing

n.a

n.a

12 (6%)

12 (6%)

Total

140 (100%)

94 (100%)

201 (100%)

203 (100%)

  1. The first two columns of Table 1 show the number of invited organisations by stakeholder group and how many actually nominated respondents. The last two columns show how many of these nominees participated in Delphi round I and how many in Delphi round II