Feasibility of incorporating the PaGES Index within an RCT
Although randomised trials have become increasingly complex and expensive, associated qualitative studies continue to collect data on small sub-samples of 10–20 participants. Data collection typically continues ‘until data saturation’, with the ‘saturation’ referring to the An option that we have not explored in this pilot is to amend the data collection form (as with the later MGI studies) so that the participant categorises each comment as ‘positive’ ‘neutral’ or ‘negative’. This approach reduces subjective interpretation by researchers faced with coding and categorising short comments. The bean scores within each code would then be given positive or negative values and summed so as to produce an overall evaluation of the experience and satisfaction of each participant.