No face to face interaction Some face to face contact and High level of face to face Methods/nature of data between investigator and interaction for limited amounts contact and /or interaction collection participant. of time. between investigator and participant e.g. participant observation or observation study. The methods are fully appropriate It is believed that the methods It is not known whether the Appropriateness of as they have been used are the most appropriate for the methods are appropriate for method and quality of successfully on similar, or the study, although it is not known the study and no advice has same, project(s) previously and/or whether they have been used been sought concerning the design advice has been sought with successfully used in a similar methods. No additional regards to the methods. The project. Advice has been resources have been made necessary resources are available sought and resource available to undertake the to undertake the work. implications considered. work. The subjects/participants are Limited information about the Participants are personally Relationship between unknown to the investigator/s. participants will be known to the investigator and investigator and provided/available to the they may have other duties or subject/participants investigator to ensure responsibilities towards all or participants cannot be some of the participants which identified. may create a potential conflict of interest. Participants are anonymous and All the information collected will Details of the information no identifiable information will be remain confidential, although collected and participants Level of privacy for participants used or collected as part to the identifiable information will be involved will not remain project, or participants have the collected as part of the study. confidential. option to remain anonymous if they so wish.
Methods/nature of data collection No face to face interaction between investigator and participant. Some face to face contact and interaction for limited amounts of time. High level of face to face contact and /or interaction between investigator and participant e.g. participant observation or observation study. Appropriateness of method and quality of design The methods are fully appropriate as they have been used successfully on similar, or the same, project(s) previously and/or advice has been sought with regards to the methods. The necessary resources are available to undertake the work. It is believed that the methods are the most appropriate for the study, although it is not known whether they have been used successfully used in a similar project. Advice has been sought and resource implications considered. It is not known whether the methods are appropriate for the study and no advice has been sought concerning the methods. No additional resources have been made available to undertake the work. Relationship between investigator and subject/participants The subjects/participants are unknown to the investigator/s. Limited information about the participants will be provided/available to the investigator to ensure participants cannot be identified. Participants are personally known to the investigator and they may have other duties or responsibilities towards all or some of the participants which may create a potential conflict of interest. Level of privacy for participants Participants are anonymous and no identifiable information will be used or collected as part to the project, or participants have the option to remain anonymous if they so wish. All the information collected will remain confidential, although identifiable information will be collected as part of the study. Details of the information collected and participants involved will not remain confidential.