Table 2 Themes and categories from open-ended responses
Themes | Categories | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
Assembling abstract | Individual or team approach | Who initiates and guides process | |
Deadlines and time crunch | Last minute push due to delays in getting feedback; poor planning | ||
Time away from other pursuits | Divert time and effort from other responsibilities and personal life | ||
Quality of research | Improves research quality | Interim pause and analyses foster project optimization | |
Challenges due to data volume and quality | Insufficient and poor-quality data | ||
Submitting far in advance of meeting | Partial results and incomplete analyses | ||
Scope of project changed | Unexpected negative results; surprising favorable results | ||
Inter-personal interactions | Role of collaborators | Make insightful contributions; impede if delay in providing input | |
Dependence on statisticians | Improve analytical rigor; limited access for consultation | ||
Impact of mentees | Facilitate if diligent; impede if wait until last minute | ||
Impact of mentors | Facilitate if provide guidance; impede if delay in providing feedback | ||
Submission process | Formatting nuances | Rules for word counts, sub-sections, tables and figures | |
Technical issues | Uploading to website; required conflict of interest statements | ||
Impact on careers | Minimal boost to mentors’ careers | Perfunctory to demonstrate productivity; risk of publicly revealing work early | |
Marked advance to mentees’ careers | Foster scholarship, networking, experience | ||
Benefits to mentors and mentees from presenting work | Get input of experts; be recognized as contributors to the field; enhance reputations | ||
Psychological | Stressful | Meet deadlines; prompt collaborators; ensure respectable quality | |
impact | Angst about meeting | Will have to present to experts | |
Unforeseen events | Situations outside of control (i.e. impact of COVID-19) | ||