Table 1.
Most significant change evaluations of public health research interventions
| Name of project | Country | Intervention | Study design | Intervention participants | Number of stories | Sample | Recording method | Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
1. AIDS prevention for the choice disabled (2008–2012) |
Botswana Namibia and Eswatini | Structural intervention for primary HIV prevention among vulnerable young women | Cluster randomized controlled trial | 75 communities (25 in each country) randomized to one or more of three interventions or control |
89 BVV 76 FW |
Purposive by country | Notes by story collectors |
Hierarchical Deductive thematic |
|
2. Proyecto Buena Semilla (2013–2019) |
Guatemala | Women’s Circles to empower women as agents of change in their lives, families and communities | Parallel group non-randomized pilot study |
> 230 in deliberative dialogue > 550 in Women’s Circles > 60 community health workers and traditional midwives |
207 | Purposive | Audio-recording by trained interviewer | Deductive and inductive thematic |
|
3. Video edutainment & maternal outcomes in Toro, Nigeria (2015–2020) |
Nigeria | Universal home visits to pregnant women and their spouses | Cluster randomized controlled trial in stepped wedge design | Six wards in one local government authority. 33,000 households with population of 260,000. |
23 women 21 men 14 visitors 6 govt officers 64 total |
Purposive | Notes by story collectors |
Hierarchical Deductive and inductive thematic |
|
4. Inter-ministerial National Structural Intervention Trial 2014–2018 |
Botswana |
Structural intervention to reduce HIV infections, particularly among marginalized young women |
Cluster randomized controlled trial | Five intervention districts, total population of about 275,000 | 117 young women | Purposive | Notes by story collectors | Inductive thematic |
|
5. Camino Verde dengue trial (2008–2015) |
Mexico & Nicaragua | Community mobilization for dengue prevention | Cluster randomized controlled trial | 18,838 households in Nicaragua and Mexico with a total population of 85,182 residents | 16 facilitators | Purposive | Self-recorded | Grounded theory; discourse analysis |
|
6. Safe birth in cultural safety (2015–2017) |
Mexico | Support for traditional midwives including stipend, apprentices, cultural brokers | Cluster randomized controlled trial |
8000 households > 28 traditional midwives > 29 midwife apprentices > 17 intercultural brokers |
84 | Purposive | Notes by story collectors | Reflexive thematic |
|
7. Pilot cultural safety training (2016) |
Colombia | Participation in community-based cultural safety training program | Qualitative descriptive study | 13 final-year medical students | 13 | Universal | Self-recorded | Inductive thematic |
|
8. Training in evidence-based planning (2015–2016) |
Botswana: participants from 14 SADC countries | Participation in course on evidence-based planning, including session on MSC technique | Course practical | 64 Health planners and researchers (4 classes) | 64 | Universal | Notes by fellow students in pairs | Inductive thematic |
| 9. Safe birth in post-conflict setting (2019–2020) | Uganda | Co-design of safe-birth intervention | Cross sectional study | 3 service providers, 3 men, 3 women, 2 female youth, 3 male youth, 3 CHWs, 3 traditional midwives | 20 | Purposive | Notes by male and females story collectors | Inductive thematic |
|
10. McGill Participatory Research course (2016–2018) |
Canada | Course on Participatory Research, including session on MSC | Course practical | 75 graduate students (3 classes) | 75 | Universal | Self-recorded | Inductive and deductive thematic |
SADC Southern Africa Development Community. Countries represented on the courses: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Seychelles, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe (Anglophone); Democratic Republic of Congo and Madagascar (Francophone); Angola, and Mozambique (Lusophone)