Data on the descriptive overview and the quality assessment details of 12 qualitative research papers

Abstract

This data article presents the supplementary material for the review paper “Role of acceptability barriers in delayed diagnosis of Tuberculosis: Literature review from high burden countries” (Barnabishvili et al., in press) [1]. General overview of 12 qualitative papers, including the details about authors, years of publication, data source locations, study objectives, overview of methods, study population characteristics, as well as the details of intervention and the outcome parameters of the papers are summarized in the first two tables included to the article. Quality assessment process of the methodological strength of 12 papers and the results of the critical appraisal are further described and summarized in the second part of the article. Keywords: Acceptability of Health Care, Access to Health Care, Drug-resistant tuberculosis, High M/XDR-TB burden countries, Quality assessment of qualitative studies, Critical appraisal of qualitative studies