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Table 1 Data sources, sample size and recruitment of participants

From: Control, struggle, and emergent masculinities: a qualitative study of men’s care-seeking determinants for chronic cough and tuberculosis symptoms in Blantyre, Malawi

Technique

Participant category

N (total participants)

Gender and age

Mode of recruitment

FGD

HCW

2 (20)

mixed sex (3 men and 7 women per group); age 23 – 58)

At PCCs; chosen to include wide range of providers (Nurse midwife technicians, nurses, Health Surveillance Assistants, TB officers, Clinical Officers)

 

Community members

8 (74)

3 – men only

Through approaching households

3 – women only

2 – mixed (11 women, 9 men)

IDI

Newly diagnosed TB patients

20

14 – women

Through registers held at PCCs

6 – men

 

Chronic coughers

20

8 – women

Through household survey inquiring about cough

12 – men

Participatory

Health stakeholders

 

14 – women

 

Workshop

13 – men