Characteristics of Study Participants in Iranian Informal Healthcare Payments Research

31 participants, including policymakers, hospital staff, and patients, were interviewed for a qualitative study on informal healthcare payments in Iran between September 2024 and January 2025. The dataset, authored by Ali Reza Yusefi and shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license, likely contains demographic or thematic codes from the analysis of these interviews. It was last updated on May 22, 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing stakeholder perspectives on the causes of informal payments based on the six main themes identified.
• Exploring management strategies for informal payments based on the structural, legal, and cultural approaches described.
• Comparing factors related to salaries, organizational issues, laws, and ethics from provider and policymaker viewpoints.
• Investigating service-related and cultural factors influencing informal payments from the patient perspective.

Strengths

• Data is derived from 31 purposively sampled participants, providing multiple stakeholder perspectives.
• The study design includes a defined time range from September 10, 2024, to January 17, 2025.
• Analysis employed latent content analysis using MAXQDA software, suggesting a structured qualitative methodology.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The 5.5 KB file size indicates a very limited scope, likely containing summary codes or participant characteristics rather than raw interview data.

Provenance

Source

figshare, author Ali Reza Yusefi

Collection Method

Purposive and snowball sampling for semi-structured interviews, analyzed via latent content analysis.

Time Range

Interviews conducted between September 10, —2024 and January 17, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 17:24:44; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Iranian hospitals