Table 5.

Quality assessment for the qualitative studies included in this review

Authors	Clearly stated aims	Qualitative method is appropriate	Design appropriate	Recruitment strategy appropriate	Data collection appropriate	Relationships between researcher and participants	Ethical issue	Rigour data analysis	Clear statements of findings	Research is valuable
Bhojani et al. (28)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No information	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Chary et al. (29)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No information	Yes	No information	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Higuchi (30)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No information	No information	No information	Yes	Yes
Kolling et al. (31)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No information	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Balabanova et al. (26)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No information	No information	Yes	Yes	Yes
Kühlbrandt et al. (32)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Rutembemberwa et al. (33)	Yes	Yes	Yes	No information	Yes	No information	Yes	No information	Yes	Yes
Belue et al. (27)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No information	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes