ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The SHARP study was funded by the Scottish Government, the Medical Research Council and the University of Glasgow. The research was originally commissioned by Communities Scotland, a Scottish Government executive agency which was abolished on 1st April 2008, in collaboration with the Chief Scientist Office.
Our thanks to Kate Campbell, Survey Support Officer in the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit, who helped to organise the sample of potential interviewees, and also many thanks to the respondents themselves for taking part in the study.