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    Bamidele
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    I put up this discussion because over the years our formative research has been restricted to mere advocacy and literature review and at most a few key-informant interviews. Now that I understand what it takes to do better during the formative stage of a trial, I would like to get more information on the size of would be trial participants that could be considered appropriate or would produce findings with appreciable power to use for stakeholder engagement during a trial.

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      Anthonia
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      I agree with Marie in any activity carried out well one learns one or two new ideas.

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      I agree with Marie that participants were assigned to do a project will give us better and appropriate idea about it.

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      Marie
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      My experience of “formative research is not that extensive but from my experience with the Welcome Trust, where participants were assigned to do a project, the focus was not on how well the task was accomplished but what the person learnt from doing the task or how carrying out the task develops the person.

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