Rural Kenya qualitative transcripts from the BIGPIC study assessing receptiveness to group medical visits and microfinance for non-communicable disease care. The data includes 5 community gatherings (mabaraza) with 205 participants and 16 focus group discussions with 162 participants, collected by research staff. Transcript excerpts are organized by code, participant sex, and participant type.
Use Cases
- Analyzing themes of chronic disease stigma based on coded transcript excerpts.
- Studying community skepticism of health systems from focus group discussion content.
- Identifying socio-economic barriers to integrated care models mentioned in participant discussions.
- Comparing perspectives between patient, clinician, and microfinance group member participant types.
Strengths
- Includes 367 total participants (205 in mabaraza, 162 in FGDs) providing a substantial qualitative sample.
- Transcript excerpts are coded and labeled with participant sex (male/female) and type (patient, clinician, microfinance member, baraza participant).
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Qualitative data collection via community gatherings (mabaraza) and focus group discussions, transcribed and translated from Swahili.
- Geography
- Western Kenya