Table 2. Quality assessment tool for qualitative studies using the COREQ (COnsolidated criteria for REporting Qualitative research) checklist.
| Adu 2020 | Brouwer 2014 | Buregyega 2013 | Chapman 2017 (1) | Chapman 2017 (2) | Emerson 2016* | Kuniyu 2019# | Scott 2017* | Sissolak 2011 | Tamir 2016# | Tshitangano 2015 | Tudor 2013# | Turusbekova 2016* | Woith 2012 | Zelnick 2013 | Zinatsa 2018 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Domain 1: Research team and reflexivity (score out of 8) | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Domain 2: Study design (score out of 15) | 13 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 6 | 10 |
| Domain 3: analysis and findings (score out of 9) | 7 | 7 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 7 |
| Total Score (out of 32) | 26 | 22 | 19 | 22 | 23 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 17 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 10 | 20 |
(1) Perceived Barriers to Adherence to Tuberculosis Infection Control Measures among Health Care Workers in the Dominican Republic. MEDICC Rev. 2017;19(1):16–22.
(2) The Role of Powerlessness Among Health Care Workers in Tuberculosis Infection Control. Qual Health Res. 2017;27(14):2116–27.
* Interventional Studies
# Mixed-method studies—Including cross-sectional data, hence there was slightly more limited reporting on the qualitative methods.