• Promote more awareness of micronutrient deficiencies (calcium and vitamin D) and oral health problems during pregnancy in the centres prior to recruitment | |
• Maintain a good relationship with nurses. However, more efforts should be made to engage with doctors | |
• Avoid partnership with individuals and seek institutionalised collaboration in order to prevent the problem of discontinuity when individuals leave their posts | |
• Prepare interdisciplinary tools and build educational support to assist the target population in dealing with barriers | |
• Keep track of why people drop out, allowing timely improvements in recruitment and retention | |
• Make provision in the research budget for fieldworker training on how to respond to tense situations and insurance for medical expenses and acquisition of any stolen equipment | |
• Build team resilience and motivation |