Qualitative Transcripts on African Trypanosomiasis Screening Barriers

Jérémie Ilunga provides verbatim transcripts from a 2024 qualitative study exploring barriers to integrating passive screening for human African trypanosomiasis into primary healthcare in the Bibanga Health District. The dataset contains 13 focus group discussions and 12 semi-structured interviews with community members, patients, volunteers, and health providers, translated from Tshiluba to French. The 180.4 KB ZIP file offers raw textual data for thematic analysis.

Use Cases

• Analyze community perceptions of HAT by coding themes like 'confusion with malaria', 'fear of testing', and 'feelings of marginalization' from focus group transcripts.
• Identify structural and institutional barriers by extracting mentions of 'geographical accessibility', 'stockouts', 'lack of supervision', and 'low community involvement' from interviews with healthcare providers and decision-makers.
• Compare stakeholder perspectives by examining differences in discourse between 'community volunteers', 'former HAT patients', and 'local and provincial decision-makers' across the interview and focus group texts.
• Study sociocultural barriers through thematic analysis of transcripts for mentions of 'rumors' and 'stigmatization' associated with the disease.

Strengths

• Contains 13 focus group discussions and 12 semi-structured interviews, providing multiple stakeholder perspectives.
• Original Tshiluba transcripts were translated to French, offering a consistent language for analysis.
• Data is thematically analyzed in the associated study, providing context for the raw transcripts.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 180.4 KB, indicating limited textual scope and sample size from only four health areas.
• Lacks demographic or structured metadata columns for quantitative analysis alongside the qualitative text.
• Geographic scope is limited to the Bibanga Health District, reducing generalizability.

Provenance

Source

Jérémie Ilunga via figshare.

Collection Method

Qualitative data gathered via digitally recorded focus group discussions and semi-structured interviews, transcribed and translated.

Time Range

Study conducted in 2024.

Freshness

Last updated in 2026, indicating recent availability, though the underlying study was conducted earlier.

Geography

Bibanga Health District, Democratic Republic of the Congo.