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Table 3 Qualitative participants and sample sizes

From: Results-based financing to increase uptake of skilled delivery services in The Gambia: using the ‘three delays’ model to interpret midline evaluation findings

Participants

Sample Size

 

Baseline (Jan-Feb 2015)

Midline (July – August 2016)

Focus group discussion

# of FGDs (# of participants)

 RBF Committee

1 (6)

1 (6)

 Project Implementation Committee

1 (6)

1 (8)

 Regional Health Directorate (RHD)

3 (18)

3 (17)

 Health workers

3 (17)

5 (22)

 Catchment Area Committee

3 (18)

3 (16)

 VDC/VSG

5 (32)

7 (45)

 Women who had delivered in the previous six months

6 (51)

13 (74)

 Men

5 (35)

6 (35)

Total focus group discussions

27 (193)

39 (223)

Key informant interview

# of interviews

 Health Facility Officer-in-Charge

3

3

 Community Health Nurse

3

3

 TBA/CBC

5

7

 Vulnerable womena

9

7

Total interviews

20

20

  1. a‘Vulnerable’ was not specifically defined but was determined by community leaders during data collection. Typically it included widows and unmarried adolescents