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Table 2 Inclusion criteria for leadership hubs

From: The impact of leadership hubs on the uptake of evidence-informed nursing practices and workplace policies for HIV care: a quasi-experimental study in Jamaica, Kenya, Uganda and South Africa

Criteria for hub composition

• Each leadership hub will have six to nine members:

 Members of each hub will be drawn from different levels of authority and responsibility within the health system, from different disciplines and from four key stakeholder groups within each of the intervention districts:

 ▪ Registered nurses, registered midwives, enrolled nurses and nurse managers working in hospitals or communities

 ▪ Researchers: junior, intermediate or senior nurse researchers

 ▪ Decision-makers: from the Ministry of Health; local representatives from nursing or other health professional and regulatory bodies and unions

 ▪ Community representatives: from community groups active on HIV issues (e.g. people living with HIV, grandmothers looking after AIDS-orphaned children, women’s groups)

• Aim to have one person on each hub who is a person living with HIV or AIDS

Criteria for individual hub members

• Country nationals

• Lived or worked in the intervention district for some time

• Intend to reside in intervention district for the duration of the project

• Involved in committees or work related to HIV care, policies and/or programmes

• Willing to commit to involvement in a leadership hub for the duration of the project

  1. Leadership hub members were purposively recruited and selected by country research teams (country programme director and research staff), in consultation with the national advisory committee (with the exception of South Africa where there was no national advisory committee)