Fig 1.
Summary of key recruitment and retention strategies.
Fig 2.
Schematic timeline of the three e-Delphi surveys and the feedback questionnaire.
Solid fill rectangles denotes when the survey was open, with exact dates given. White fill rectangles denote when the 1–9 scores were being analysed. Asterisks indicate the date of the survey reminder emails to participants who had not completed or fully completed the survey at that time.
Table 1.
Recruitment methods by which participants found out about the COMiT’ID study.
Table 2.
Feedback questionnaire findings showing satisfaction with the study overview in the participant information sheet, split by per stakeholder group and first language.
Table 3.
Total number of participants who completed each round of the e-Delphi surveys.
Table 4.
Feedback questionnaire findings showing frequency of ratings for “meets expectations” split by stakeholder group.
Table 5.
Feedback questionnaire findings showing satisfaction with outcome domain description, split by per stakeholder group and first language.
Table 6.
Feedback questionnaire findings showing overall satisfaction with e-Delphi software based on multiple functionality options and scoring.
Fig 3.
Recommendations for future COS developers.
Main observations and lessons learned from the COMiT’ID study form a set of recommendations for others to consider.