Table 2 Barriers to and facilitators for integrated COVID-19 and TB screening at Kiruddu National Referral Hospital mapped to the COM-B model

Psychological capability

Healthcare providers lacked adequate knowledge on how to integrate screening for COVID-19 and TB

Physical capability

Physical opportunity

Lack of simple standard operating procedures for integrated screening of COVID-19 and TB

Inconsistent supply of personal protective equipment (PPE)

Understaffing at the outpatient and emergency departments

Lack of data collection tools and databases for integrated screening of COVID-19 and TB

Social opportunity

TB focal persons are available to support healthcare providers to provide integrated screening for COVID-19 and TB

Reflective motivation

Healthcare providers fear contracting COVID-19 infection during integrated screening

Already existing training forums at the health facility could be utilized to strengthen the capacity of HCP to integrate COVID-19 and TB screening

Automatic motivation

Lack of risk allowance for healthcare providers to conduct integrated screening of COVID-19 and TB