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Table 1 Unfinished sentences for the focus group interview and questions for the telephone interviews

From: Disappointment and adherence among parents of newborns allocated to the control group: a qualitative study of a randomized clinical trial

Focus group interview - unfinished sentences

Telephone interviews - questions

1. When we agreed to let our child participate in the Calmette study the most important reason was…

1. What was your most important reason for participating in the study?

2. After signing the consent we thought…

2. How were you informed that your child was in the control group? When (counted in hours after the child’s birth) were you informed?

3. What worried us the most was…

3. Was it clear to you beforehand that it was a random process, whether your child was getting the vaccine or not? What do you think about that?

4. Immediately after we were told that our child was not going to be vaccinated, we thought…

4. What was your immediate reaction to being told that your child was not getting the vaccine?

5. What we are most delighted of now is…

5. What do you think now that you have had some time to consider the fact that your child is in the control group? Have you done anything on that note?

6. What we are most annoyed with now is…

6. What do you think of your continued participation in the study? Is there anything that has made you wonder?

7. What we still don’t understand is…