Exploring barriers and enabling factors for surgical task sharing with physician assistants in Liberia: a qualitative pre-implementation study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study explores potential barriers and enabling factors that may influence the acceptance of implementation of a surgical task-sharing initiative targeting physician assistants (PAs) in Liberia.

Design

A qualitative, pre-implementation study using semistructured interviews. Data was analysed in NVivo V.12 using deductive coding and the consolidated framework for implementation research as a guide.

Setting

Liberia has few surgical providers and a poor surgical infrastructure resulting in a very low surgical volume. The research was conducted in the context of an already running surgical task-sharing programme for midwives.

Participants

In 2019, a total of 30 key stakeholders in the field of surgery and the PAs training programme were interviewed.<

SUBMITTER: Werz MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11253748 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature