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. 2017 Dec 6;7(12):e018718. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018718

Table 2.

Selected methodological characteristics of original research publications

Subcategory No Setting* Design† Data collection‡§ Data analysis§¶
Af Am Se Eu Em Wp Gl Quan Qual Mix Sur IDI FGD Rev Oth The Des Inf
Learning and evaluation 36 14 1 4 0 1 4 14 8 9 19 20 18 5 16 10 28 18 1
Capacity assessment 27 16 0 0 1 2 3 5 6 7 14 15 13 5 15 7 19 22 0
HRCS methods 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5 1 2 1 1 4 4 6 1 1
Evidence synthesis 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 4 1 1 0 0 5 4 5 0 0
Miscellaneous 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 2 3 0 2 1 4 0 0
Total 79 38 1 4 1 3 7 27 15 27 37 40 35 11 42 26 62 41 2

*WHO region where the study was located: African (Af), Americas (Am), South-East Asia (Se), European (Eu), Eastern Mediterranean (Em), Western Pacific (Wp) or Global (Gl) (defined as three or more WHO regions).

†Quantitative (Quan), qualitative (Qual) or mixed methods (Mix).

‡Survey (Sur), in-depth interview (IDI), focus group discussion (FGD), literature/document review (Rev) or other methodology (Oth).

§Categories are not mutually exclusive.

¶Thematic (The), descriptive (Des) or inferential (Inf).

HRCS, health research capacity strengthening.