Stakeholder group | Sample size | Method/s of recruitment | Selection and exclusion criteria | Demographics |
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Case study 1: assisted reproductive technologies | ||||
Clinicians | Recruited: N = 19 | Nominations from key representative bodies in the field of reproductive medicine*; purposive sampling of key opinion leaders; snowballing | Medically qualified clinicians working in ART and associated fields such as maternal/fetal medicine and neonatology | 4 males; 4 females Reproductive medicine: 5/8 |
Participated: Round I N = 8 | Exclusion criteria: | Other (including obstetrics/gynaecology and neonatology): 3/8 | ||
Participated Round II N = 6 | -Participants and/or their partners who had undertaken ART in the 3 years immediately preceding the forum | |||
-Participants currently undertaking ART treatment or planning to undertake ART in the foreseeable future | ||||
Consumers | Recruited: N = 32 | Purposive recruitment seeking participants with a broad range of ART experiences - advertisement seeking participants placed in The Advertiser (Adelaide’s daily newspaper). Detailed topic and exclusion criteria‡ | -Females 18 years and older who had undertaken ART treatment, regardless of infertility aetiology | 1 male; 8 females |
Participated: Round I N = 9 | -Up to 3 males, partners of women who had undertaken ART | |||
Participated: Round II N = 7 | Exclusion criteria: | |||
Reason for exclusion: | -Participants and/or their partners who had undertaken ART in the 3 years immediately preceding the forum | |||
Withdrew interest: 2 | ||||
Unable to contact further: 4 | ||||
Unable to attend:1 | -Participants currently undertaking ART treatment or planning to undertake ART in the foreseeable future | |||
Related to other participant: 1 | ||||
ART undertaken <3 years prior: 12 | -An inability to speak and read English | |||
Currently undergoing ART: 1 | -Pregnant women | |||
Community | Recruited: N = 25 | Random sample of SA population, identified and contacted by independent recruitment company | 18 years or older; matched against predetermined stratification criteria for broadly proportional representation of the Australian population§ | 7 males; 7 females |
Exclusion criteria: | Age: | |||
Participated: Round I N = 14 | 6 participants had previously participated in a separate citizens’ jury | -Participants currently undergoing ART or who had undergone ART | 18-30: 4/14 | |
Participated: Round II N = 10 | -Participants planning to undertake ART in the foreseeable future | 31-40: 1/14 | ||
Reasons for exclusion: | -An inability to speak and read English | 41-50: 3/14 | ||
Withdrew interest: 5 | 51+: 6/14 | |||
Missed recruitment deadline: 5 | -Pregnant women | Post-tax income: | ||
<AU$800/week: 7/14 | ||||
Did not meet inclusion criteria: 1 | >AU$800/week: 7/14 | |||
Case study 2: B12 and folate pathology tests | ||||
Clinicians: General Practitioners | Recruited: N = 26 | Letters of invitation sent to all GPs from 4 South Australian Divisions of General Practice (Adelaide Hills; Adelaide Western; Adelaide Northern’ Yorke Peninsula); respondents selected on ‘first-come’ basis with 2 places reserved for GPs from regional areas | Registered GP working part-time or full-time in active practice in South Australia | 9 males; 5 females |
Participated: N = 14 | ||||
Reasons for exclusion: Withdrew interest: 4 | ||||
Quota filled: 8 | ||||
Clinicians: Specialists | Recruited: N = 7 | Purposive sampling with key practitioners sent letter of invitation; snowballing. | Participants must be registered specialist practitioners (including, but not limited to: geriatricians, physicians, endocrinologists and haematologists) working full-time or part-time in active practice in South Australia | 4 males; 2 females |
Speciality: | ||||
Participated: N = 6 | General physician: 3/6 | |||
Reasons for exclusion: Withdrew interest: 1 | Endocrinologist:1/6 | |||
Haematologist: 2/6 | ||||
Pathology providers | Recruited: N = 9 | Nominations from national public and private pathology interest groupsǁ; purposive sampling of key opinion leaders; snowballing | Participants must be working full-time or part-time in administrative, management or laboratory roles in private or public pathology providers in Australia | 5 males; 3 females |
Participated: N = 9 | Role and practice: | |||
Public pathology: 2/8 | ||||
Private pathology: 5/8 | ||||
Management: 1/8 | ||||
Community | Recruited: N = 16 | Random sample of SA population, identified and contacted by independent recruitment company | 18 years or older; matched against predetermined stratification criteria for broadly proportional representation of the Australian population§ | 5 males; 6 females |
Age: | ||||
Participated: N = 11 | 18-30: 3/11 | |||
Reasons for exclusion: Withdrew interest: 5 | 31-40: 2/11 | |||
41-50: 3/11 | ||||
51+: 3/11 | ||||
Post-tax income: | ||||
<AU$800/week: 5/11 | ||||
>AU$800/week: 6/11 |