Table 3 Data sources and collection
Respondents | Sampling | Respondent characteristics | Data collection approach | Interview focus |
|---|---|---|---|---|
30 junior medical officers who finished internship within 3 years | Snowballing approach through facilitated introductions or referral by an interviewee; individuals were selected also considering different internship hospitals and current occupation | ⦁ Undergraduate training: 29 respondents trained in public universities, 1 trained in private universities ⦁ Internship hospital type: 25 interned in public hospitals, 3 in mission hospitals, 1 in private hospital, and 1 in military hospital ⦁ Internship hospital level: 14 interned in level 5 hospitals and 16 in level 4 hospitals ⦁ Current occupation: 26 currently work as medical officers, 2 work as researchers, 1 work as resident, and 1 work in business | ⦁ Semi-structured interviews ⦁ In-person or online in English between June and Sept 2021 | ⦁ Wellbeing, educational and work environment during the internship, ⦁ Experiences of applying and securing post-internship jobs |
10 consultants with experience supervising interns | Snowballing approach through facilitated introductions or referral by an interviewee; individuals were selected considering different specialty | ⦁ Internship hospital type: 8 respondents work in public hospitals, 1 work in mission hospital, 1 work in private hospital ⦁ Internship hospital level: 3 work in level 6 hospitals, 4 work in level 5 hospitals, 3 in level 4 hospitals ⦁ Specialty: 2 work in surgery, 2 work in internal medicine, 5 work in paediatric, 1 work in obstetrics and gynaecology | ⦁ Semi-structured interviews ⦁ In-person or online in English between June and Sept 2021 | ⦁ Observations of interns’ experiences during internship and employment |
51 county-level and subcounty-level managers | Two counties were purposively selected based on their HRH density and geographic locations; individuals were selected purposefully covering different departments and affiliations | ⦁ County: 14 respondents come from county A, 37 from county B ⦁ Affiliation: 11 respondents work as county health department officials, 2 work as county public service board officials, 2 work as county other department officials, 17 work as subcounty health department officials, 19 work as public facility managers | ⦁ Semi-structured individual or group interviews (22 individual interviews, 8 group interviews involving 29 participants) ⦁ In-person in English between Sept 2021 and March 2022 | ⦁ Respondents’ role as HRH managers ⦁ Counties’ HRH interventions ⦁ How medical officers, clinical officers and nurses are recruited and deployed in counties |