6. PROCEDURE

Over 150 registrations for on-line supervision have already been received. When the project is ready to start, prospective supervisees will be paired with supervisors who are offering the type of supervision they have requested. At this point, the supervisees will be asked by email to complete the pre-supervision questionnaire, APDQ, GHQ-12 and MBI. This will be done on-line via a specific web page to which they will have password-restricted access. Four months later, supervisees will be approached again (by email) and asked to complete the post-supervision questionnaire, APDQ, GHQ-12, MBI and the MCSS, once again on-line. On both occasions one email reminder message will be sent to those failing to complete the questionnaires within two weeks.

Data submitted by respondents will be added automatically to a database. That database will not identify respondents by name, and will only be accessible to members of the research team, and by IT system administration staff.. After data collection is complete, it will be removed from the computer acting as a web server.

Most supervision will take place via email lists. Post to these lists will automatically be archived as part of the function of supervision itself. Those archives will only be accessible by supervisees and supervisors who have agreed to work together, and by IT system administration staff. Participants will be asked for their permission for those archives to be accessed by the researchers for the purposes of analysing the process of on-line supervision.

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20 July 2003