Table 1 Consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative studies (COREQ): 32-item checklist
From: An intersectional gender analysis in kidney transplantation: women who donate a kidney
Domain | Item No | TopicTopic | Guide Questions/Description | Reported on Page No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Research team and reflexivity | ||||
Personal Characteristics: | ||||
1 | Interviewer/facilitator | Which author/s conducted the interview or focus group? | Page 3: “One of the women authors (LR), who is not part of transplant team, contacted each of participants and went to their homes to conduct the interviews”. | |
2 | Credentials | What were the researcher’s credentials? | N/A | |
3 | Occupation | What was their occupation at the time of the study? | N/A | |
4 | Gender | Was the researcher male or female? | Page 3: “Six researchers (five women and one man) participated in this study”. | |
5 | Experience and training | What experience or training did the researcher have? | Page 4: “Four of the researchers (LRM, SB, EMR, MSC) had previous experience in qualitative study designs”. | |
Relationship with participants: | ||||
6 | Relationship established | Was a relationship established prior to study commencement? | Page 3: “One person in charge from each kidney transplant unit identified participants who met inclusion criteria and informed them of the study.” | |
7 | Participant knowledge of the interviewer | What did the participants know about the researcher? | Page 3: “One of the women authors (LR), who is not part of transplant team, contacted each of participants”. | |
8 | Interviewer characteristics | What characteristics were reported about the interviewer/facilitator? | Page 12: “Participants received verbal and written information about main researcher and study aims”. | |
Study design | ||||
Theoretical framework: | ||||
9 | Methodological orientation and Theory | What methodological orientation was stated to underpin the study? | Page 2: “This study uses the method of hermeneutic phenomenology following the postulates of Heidegger [40]”. | |
Participant selection: | ||||
10 | Sampling | How were participants selected? | Page 3: “A purposive sample was used”. | |
11 | Method of approach | How were participants approached? | Page 3: “One person in charge from each kidney transplant unit identified participants who met inclusion criteria and informed them of the study. Once they had given verbal consent, one of the women authors (LR), who is not part of transplant team, contacted each of participants”. | |
12 | Sample size | How many participants were in the study? | Page 3: “A total of 10 participants agreed to participate in the study. All the participants had biological kinship (30% mothers or sisters) or sociocultural (70% wives) ties”. | |
13 | Non-participation | How many people refused to participate or dropped out? Reasons? | Not aplicable-All who contacted participated in the study. | |
Setting: | ||||
14 | Setting of data collection | Where was the data collected? | Page 3: “one of the women authors (LR), who is not part of transplant team, contacted each of participants and went to their homes to conduct the interviews and sign the written consent”. | |
15 | Presence of non-participants | Was anyone else present besides the participants and researchers? | Page 3: “One or more individual interviews were held for each participant, before and after the donation, depending on the stage of donation process the women were in during the period of the study”. | |
16 | Description of sample | What are the important characteristics of the sample? | Table 2 | |
Data collection: | ||||
17 | Interview guide | Were questions, prompts, guides provided by the authors? Was it pilot tested? | Page 3: “Interview script arose from a review of the literature related to the purpose of the study, as well as from the work done with fellow kidney transplant professionals. Script was previously tested with three female donors that had already gone through the kidney donation process”. | |
18 | Repeat interviews | Were repeat interviews carried out? If yes, how many? | Page 3: “Data saturation was achieved in the 17 interviews conducted with 10 participants.” Page 3: “One or more individual interviews were held for each participant, before and after the donation, depending on the stage of donation process the women were in during the period of the study”. | |
19 | Audio/visual recording | Did the research use audio or visual recording to collect the data? | Page 3: “Interviews were recorded and transcribed verbatim”. | |
20 | Field notes | Were field notes made during and/or after the interview or focus group? | Page 3: “Field notes were taken in each interview that were retrieved during the data analysis stage”. | |
21 | Duration | What was the duration of the interviews or focus group? | Page 3: “Average length of the interviews was 36 min (between 26 and 53 min)”. | |
22 | Data saturation | Was data saturation discussed? | Page 3: “Data saturation was achieved in the 17 interviews conducted with 10 participants.” | |
23 | Transcripts returned | Were transcripts returned to participants for comment and/or correction? | Page 3: “Participants were given the interview transcript for comment”. | |
Analysis and fidings | ||||
Data analysis: | ||||
24 | Number of data coders | How many data coders coded the data? | Page 4: “Data analysis was reviewed by two team members“. | |
25 | Description of the coding tree | Did authors provide a description of the coding tree? | N/A | |
26 | Derivation of themes | Were themes identified in advance or derived from the data? | Page 3: (Data Analysis) “We then proceeded to generate initial codes and organise the topics and sub-topics that arose inductively”. | |
27 | Software | What software, if applicable, was used to manage the data? | N/A | |
28 | Participant checking | Did participants provide feedback on the findings? | Not applicable as participants did not provide feedback on the data/findings. | |
Reporting | 29 | Quotations presented | Were participant quotations presented to illustrate the themes / findings? Was each quotation identified? | Page 4–9 (Results): Quotations are presented throughout the text alongside interpretations. |
30 | Data and findings consistent | Was there consistency between the data presented and the findings? | Page 4–11 (Results and Discussion) | |
31 | Clarity of major themes | Were major themes clearly presented in the findings? | Page 4–9 (Results) | |
32 | Clarity of minor themes | Is there a description of diverse cases or discussion of minor themes? | Page 4–11 (Results and Discussion) | |