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Table 1 Data collection methods

From: Increasing health worker capacity through distance learning: a comprehensive review of programmes in Tanzania

Method

Target group

Number of informants

Structured interviews

Programme managers

22

Structured interviews (6)

Questionnaires (2)

Distance learning tutors

8

Structured interviews (20)

Questionnaires (14)

Distance learning students

34

Structured interviews

IT specialists

9a

Structured interviews

Distance learning preceptors

4

Structured interviews

Health decision makers (MoHSW)

2

Mail-in surveys

Health care workers

46

Focus group discussion (1)

HIV & AIDS care and treatment partners (training organisations)

7 (1 from each organisation)

  1. aThis number includes both IT support staff at distance learning programmes visited and IT specialists at internet service provider firms visited.