Research team and reflexivity
The first author of this paper is a female graduate student in clinical psychology at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo (UiO). She conducted the interviews. She had interview experience from earlier classes but no other experience or training in research settings. The research team, Professor Egil Nygaard at the Department of Psychology, UiO (Ph.D., Dr. Philos; male), and Associate Professor Inger Lise Teig at the Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen (researcher II, Dr. Polit; female), also functioned as supervisors for the first author. Professor Sophie Havighurst at Mindful: Centre for Training and Research in Developmental Health, Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne (BA Hons, Dip Clin Psych, Ph.D.; female) is a program author of the TIK suite of programs and was the principal researcher on the TIK-KT intervention trial in Norwegian kindergartens.A relationship was established with some of the participants prior to the study, as the interviewer attended the 2-day professional training in TIK-KT with kindergarten leaders and lead pedagogues. The participants knew the interviewer was a graduate student working on her thesis, which was a smaller study within Professor Havighurst’s main study on TIK in Norwegian kindergartens. The participants were informed of the interviewer’s interest in implementation science and curiosity about TIK-KT in kindergartens.