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Table 1 Methods and sources of data

From: An implementation evaluation of a policy aiming to improve financial access to maternal health care in Djibo district, Burkina Faso

Methods

Sources of Data

Sample size

Variables examined

In Depth interviews

Perceptions of the policy (content, implementation, effects)

 

History of the implementation; challenges and difficulties information communication, process of funding, relation between stakeholders, quality of care

District Health Managers

10

Health workers

16

COGES

11

 

TBAs

7

 

Focus Groups

Patients, Communities (men; CHW, TBA)

62 (8 to 10 persons for each focus group)

Partograph, audits of maternal deaths, costs associated with childbirth (formal and informal payments) barriers to access to health care, quality of care

Documents

Maternal deaths audits, guidelines, register of birth, sheet management, ethnography of the locality

21 audits of maternal deaths 1 guideline registers of birth from 6 health center from 2007 to 2010

Causes of maternal deaths, delays, distance between health centres and district hospital, timing of the ambulance, components of the health policy, process of funding, tasks and responsibilities of each actor, number of births in health centres

2 ethnography of the locality

Observations

Curative and prenatal consultations, assisted deliveries, vaccinations, distribution of nets

Observations were carried out in 6 health centres (from 7 to 10 days were spent in each health centre)

Interaction between health workers and communities (patients, communities, CHWs, TBAs)

  1. COGES: Community management committee; TBA: Traditional birth attendants; CHW: Community health workers.