Table 3 Quality Assessment of included studies (n = 12)
From: Ethical considerations for biobanking and use of genomics data in Africa: a narrative review
Author, Year | Are there clear research questions? | Do the collected data allow to address the research questions? | Is the qualitative approach appropriate to answer the research question? | Are the qualitative data collection methods adequate to address the research question? | Are the findings adequately derived from the data? | Is the interpretation of results sufficiently substantiated by data? | Is there coherence between qualitative data sources, collection, analysis and interpretation? | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Quality of qualitative studies | ||||||||
Schalkwyk et al. (2012) [11] | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Tindana et al. (2012) [12] | Y | Y | Y | y | Y | Y | Y | |
Moodley and Singh (2016) [13] | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Tindana et al. (2014) [14] | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Igbe and Adebamowo (2012) [15] | N | C | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | There were no clear research questions stated in the “Introduction”. It was briefly mentioned in the “abstract” |
Barchi et al. (2015) [18] | N | C | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | There were no clear research questions stated in the Introduction. It was briefly mentioned in the abstract |
O’Neill et al. (2016) [10] | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
Quantitative descriptive | ||||||||
Abdelhafiz et al. (2019) [9] | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | |
Mwaka & Horn (2019) [16] | Y | Y | Y | N | Y | N | Y | Out of almost 400 individuals who were sent the survey, only 62 responded and completed it |
Wendler et al. (2005) [17] | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | The sample size was not clearly stated |
Akinyemi (2016) [8] | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | C | Y | |
Mixed-methods | ||||||||
Moodley et al. (2014) [19] | N | C | C | Y | Y | Y | Y | |