Interview Guide for Ethical Challenges in Global Surgery in Liberia

Madeleine Kruth's interview guide for a 2026 qualitative study on ethical considerations in global surgery collaborations. The dataset is a 9.5 KB XLS file containing the guide used in semi-structured interviews with eight surgical care providers in Liberia. The study aimed to capture perspectives from Low- and Middle-Income Countries on themes like justice, consent, and colonial legacies.

Use Cases

• Designing ethical frameworks for international surgical collaborations based on the described themes of justice and sustainability.
• Developing training materials for global surgery volunteers based on the identified ethical priorities and challenges.
• Conducting comparative analysis of ethical concerns across different low-resource settings using the interview structure.
• Informing policy for sustainable and context-sensitive surgical system strengthening based on provider perspectives.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0, facilitating reuse and sharing.
• Focuses on an under-researched area by explicitly including voices from a Low- and Middle-Income Country (Liberia).
• Interview participants (n=8) included a mix of surgeons, nurses, and general practitioners from four different sites.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset's 9.5 KB size indicates it is likely a small instrument (the guide itself) rather than a large collection of interview data.

Provenance

Source

Madeleine Kruth via figshare.

Collection Method

Purposive/convenience sampling and semi-structured interviews, analyzed with thematic coding.

Time Range

Interview dates are not specified; the dataset was last updated in 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04 17:27:39; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Liberia, with participants from four different sites.