Well, it could have been avoided!
We realized yesterday that we had sent out our guys with half-questionnaires!
Only the front side had been copied. So this led to an obvious quality assurance measure being put in place where we check each single questionnaire before it goes out!
We had a very useful meeting about the obstacles and challenges the field - guys are encountering in the township as they do the work.
Mostly they encountered the difficulty of asking questions about HIV and Male circumcision to men older than themselves. The two men in the group who had the most success were the two oldest men. They also commented that the negotiation of the process of entering an interview was essential. All in all I believe just our conversation about this was a powerful peer learning opportunity for the whole group.
When we did an estimate of successful complete questionnaires vs refusals we came up with 8 people agreeing to do a questionnaire to 1 person refusing. This was also very encouraging.
In the office I did a re-training of our team to take on the dispensation and collection of questionnaires and calendars.
We are also working hard on our data-analysis software, starting with a spreadsheet just to capture the data.
So far so good!
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