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Table 1 Participant characteristics per data generation method

From: “We have to learn to cooperate with each other”: a qualitative study to explore integration of traditional healers into the provision of HIV self-testing and tuberculosis screening in Eswatini

Data collection method

Participant characteristics

Number of interviews/sessions

FGD traditional healers

8 men

1 prior to training

FGD community members

5 groups with men, 2 groups with women; 6 people per group

FGDs held throughout the intervention

IDI with traditional healers

8 male TH

8 TH interviewed twice at 2–3 months after intervention start, and 3 months later

IDI with traditional healers’ clients

6 men, 4 women

1 interview per person after receiving an HIV self-testing kit and/or TB sputum containers

IDI with health workers

3 men, 2 women (3 head nurses, two nurses)

1 interview per person during the intervention