Table 3:
Quality Assessment of Included Studies (n= 12)
| Quality of qualitative studies | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Author, Year | Are there clear research questions? | Do the collected data allow to address the research questions? | Is the qualitative approach appropriate to answer the research question? | Are the qualitative data collection methods adequate to address the research question? | Are the findings adequately derived from the data? | Is the interpretation of results sufficiently substantiated by data? | Is there coherence between qualitative data sources, collection, analysis and interpretation? | Comments |
| Schalkwyk et al (2012) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Tindana et al (2012) | Y | Y | Y | y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Moodley and Singh (2016) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Tindana et al (2014) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Igbe and Adebamowo (2012) | N | C | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | There were no clear research questions stated in the “Introduction”. It was briefly mentioned in the “abstract”. |
| Barchi et al (2015) | N | C | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | There were no clear research questions stated in the Introduction. It was briefly mentioned in the abstract. |
| O’Neill et al (2016) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Quantitative descriptive | ||||||||
| Author, Year | Are there clear research questions? | Do the collected data allow to address the research questions? | Is the qualitative approach appropriate to answer the research question? | Are the qualitative data collection methods adequate to address the research question? | Are the findings adequately derived from the data? | Is the interpretation of results sufficiently substantiated by data? | Is there coherence between qualitative data sources, collection, analysis and interpretation? | Comments |
| Abdelhafiz et al (2019) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | |
| Mwaka & Horn (2019) | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Out of almost 400 individuals who were sent the survey, only 62 responded and completed it. |
| Wendler et al (2005) | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | The sample size was not clearly stated |
| Akinyemi (2018) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | C | Y | |
| Mixed-methods | ||||||||
| Author, Year | Are there clear research questions? | Do the collected data allow to address the research questions? | Is there an adequate rationale for using a mixed methods design to address the research question? | Are the different components of the study effectively integrated to answer the research question? | Are the outputs of the integration of qualitative and quantitative components adequately interpreted? | Are divergences and inconsistencies between quantitative and qualitative results adequately addressed? | Do the different components of the study adhere to the quality criteria of each tradition of the methods involved? | Comments |
| Moodley et al (2014) | N | C | C | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Abbreviations: Y=Yes, N=No, C= Can’t tell
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