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.