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Table 1 Inclusion and Exclusion criteria

From: Patient responses to research recruitment and follow-up surveys: findings from a diverse multicultural health care setting in Qatar

Inclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria

•Speaks (and reads, if preferring to self-administer the baseline survey) the target language as the first or a primary languagea

•Verbally consents to participate

•Aged ≥18 years

•Not interested/declines participation

•Has a severe, debilitating illness that precludes meaningful participation

•Does not speak the study language as a primary language

•Has low literacy in the study language (for postal follow-up only)

  1. a Primary language was defined as a language the person grew up speaking or reading from childhood or as determined by sociocultural norms, such as the work environment of one’s home country