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Table 1 Characteristics of participating and non-participating schools

From: Recruiting for research on sensitive topics in schools: an experience with Vaxcards, a collectable vaccine card game

School

Characteristics

Participating

• Head of school or staff agrees to early face-to-face meeting out of interest in research/vaccination.

• Local champion is interested in vaccination/student wellbeing

• Head of school is interested in increasing vaccination participation

Non-participating

• Email contact only, no phone/face-to-face availability

• Repeated disinterest or non-response from the key staff initially contacted.

• Concern about the topic of vaccination being sensitive with school stakeholders

• Multiple levels of approval required

• Staff coordinating vaccination program in charge by necessity, not out of personal interest.

• Head of school concern over parental backlash