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Table 2 Study populations and numbers of interviews and focus groups

From: Community response to intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in infants (IPTi) delivered through the expanded programme of immunization in five African settings

Type of respondent

Data collection toola

Kenya

Gabon

Tanzania

Ghana

Malawi

Total

Participant mothers

IDI

75

 

63

47

57

242b

 

QNN

122

119

148

159

137

685

Mother drop outsc

IDI

8

 

21

22

42

93

Fathers

SSI

15

 

33

80

40

168

Health workers

IDI

27

 

47

26

25

125

 

QNN

12

 

26

35

44

117

Health worker follow-up

IDI

23

 

47

15

14

99

Volunteer health worker

IDI

NA

 

NA

23

15

38

Opinion leaders

IDI

7

 

26

27

20

80

Traditional healers

IDI

2

 

23

31

15

71

Non-participant mothers

IDI

NA

38+26d

NA

NA

NA

64

Informal conversations

  

76

   

76

Participant mothers

FGD

0e

 

19

27

18

64

Community members

FGD

11

10

 

10

10

31

Community members (non-participant mothers)

QNN

 

263+231f

   

494

  1. a IDI: in-depth interview; QNN: questionnaire; FGD: focus group discussion; SSI: semi-structured interview
  2. b Not all respondents have been included in the data that were analysed quantitatively as data collection tools varied between Gabon and the other sites. Furthermore, some modifications of the data collection tools across the other sites ensured that not all interviews could be entered in the same database. Therefore, for example although 927 participant mothers were interviewed across the five sites, the total of participant mothers referred to in the quantitative data is lower (805). All data were included for qualitative analysis.
  3. c Although aggregated as "drop outs" across the four sites, the exact definition is different in the implementation studies and the clinical trials.
  4. d In Gabon, due to the retrospective nature of data collection carried out by a consultant, a sample of mothers from the local area were interviewed during two periods of fieldwork.
  5. e In Kenya, participant mothers took part in FGDs organized with other non-participant mothers and hence have been classified as community members.
  6. f Two questionnaire surveys were undertaken in Gabon: with mothers in local schools and mothers at the mother and child clinic.