COREQ (COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative research) Checklist
A checklist of items that should be included in reports of qualitative research. You must report the page number in your manuscript
where you consider each of the items listed in this checklist. If you have not included this information, either revise your manuscript
accordingly before submitting or note N/A.
Guide Questions/Description
Domain 1: Research team
and reflexivity
Which author/s conducted the interview or focus group?
What were the researcher’s credentials? E.g. PhD, MD
What was their occupation at the time of the study?
Was the researcher male or female?
What experience or training did the researcher have?
Relationship with
participants
Was a relationship established prior to study commencement?
Participant knowledge of
the interviewer
What did the participants know about the researcher? e.g. personal
goals, reasons for doing the research
Interviewer characteristics
What characteristics were reported about the inter viewer/facilitator?
e.g. Bias, assumptions, reasons and interests in the research topic
Methodological orientation
and Theory
What methodological orientation was stated to underpin the study? e.g.
grounded theory, discourse analysis, ethnography, phenomenology,
content analysis
How were participants selected? e.g. purposive, convenience,
consecutive, snowball
How were participants approached? e.g. face-to-face, telephone, mail,
email
How many participants were in the study?
How many people refused to participate or dropped out? Reasons?
Setting of data collection
Where was the data collected? e.g. home, clinic, workplace
Presence of non-
participants
Was anyone else present besides the participants and researchers?
What are the important characteristics of the sample? e.g. demographic
data, date
Were questions, prompts, guides provided by the authors? Was it pilot
tested?
Were repeat inter views carried out? If yes, how many?
Did the research use audio or visual recording to collect the data?
Were field notes made during and/or after the inter view or focus group?
What was the duration of the inter views or focus group?
Was data saturation discussed?
Were transcripts returned to participants for comment and/or