Satomi Sawa, Kazuo Hashizume, Takeru Abe, Yukinori Kusaka, Yugo Fukazawa, Yusuke Hiraku, Akihito Hagihara
Pathway linking physical activity, sleep duration, and breakfast consumption with the physical/psychosocial health of schoolchildren
Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community
qualitative quantitative methods provide different complementary insights patients preferences treatment aim study use novel mixedmethods approach employing qualitative quantitative approaches generate preliminary insights patient preferences treatment rare diseasegeneralized myasthenia gravis gmg conducted mixedmethods study collect exploratory qualitative quantitative patient preference information generate informative results within condensed timeline 4 months recruitment facilitated international health research firm study participants first reviewed brief document describing six treatment attributes facilitate efficient review material focus groups provided link complete online quantitative survey single risk threshold task participated online focus groups discussed qualitative questions experience gmg treatment completed three quantitative threshold tasks first repeated threshold task online survey study elicited quantitative data 18 participants risk tolerance qualitative data treatment experience additional treatment attributes importance reasoning behind preferences tradeoffs willing make participants n 15 chose hypothetical treatment first threshold task online survey focus groups focus group discussions provided insights participants choices threshold tasks confirmed attributes relevant helped clarify important attributes patient preference information collected using variety approaches qualitative quantitative tailored fit research needs study novel mixedmethods approach employed study efficiently captured patient preference data informative exploratory research internal decision making future research