Limitations of the Study. A major limitation of this study is the non-representativeness of the sample due to the qualitative design of the study. Qualitative research involves the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data that yield rich, context-specific data, not easily reduced to numbers. However, qualitative research quality is heavily dependent on the individual skills of the interviewer, and is more easily influenced by the researcher's personal biases and idiosyncrasies than quantitative research. Rigor is more difficult to maintain, assess, and demonstrate with qualitative data. In addition, analysis of the data involved transcribing recorded interviews and discussions into French, and then translating the French transcripts into English. As a result of this process, some of the richer contextual data may have been lost in the process of transcription and translation. Finally, much of the data collected were retrospective in nature concerning training, meetings, and events that happened since 2008; thus, information given to us by respondents regarding events which took place over the past decade may be incomplete, altered, or not well recalled.
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