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47 Perspectives of preventive care physicians on early detection of autism spectrum disorder 2 Supplementary table 1. Continued Topic Item No. Guide Questions/Description Reported on Page No. Sample size 12 How many participants were in the study? 5 Non-participation 13 How many people refused to participate or dropped out? Reasons? 5 Setting Setting of data collection 14 Where was the data collected? E.g. home, clinic, workplace 6 Presence of non participants 15 Was anyone else present besides the participants and researchers? 6 Description of sample 16 What are the important characteristics of the sample? E.g. demographic data, date 6 Data collection Interview guide 17 Were questions, prompts, guides provided by the authors? Was it pilot tested? 5,6 Repeat interviews 18 Were repeat inter views carried out? If yes, how many? 6 Audio/visual recording 19 Did the research use audio or visual recording to collect the data? 6, 7 Field notes 20 Were field notes made during and/ or after the interview or focus group? 6 Duration 21 What was the duration of the inter views or focus group? 6 Data saturation 22 Was data saturation discussed? 6 Transcripts returned 23 Were transcripts returned to participants for comment and/or correction? 7 Domain 3: analysis and findings Data analysis Number of data coders 24 How many data coders coded the data? 7 Description of the coding tree 25 Did authors provide a description of the coding tree? N/A Derivation of themes 26 Were themes identified in advance or derived from the data? 6,7

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