The Laro Kwo Project: A train the trainer model combined with mobile health technology for community health workers in Northern Uganda.

ABSTRACT: Community Health Workers (CHWs) in low and middle income countries (LMICs) provide invaluable health resources to their community members. Best practices for developing and sustaining CHW training programs in LMICs have yet to be defined using rigorous standards and measures of effectiveness. With the expansion of digital health to LMICs, few studies have evaluated the role of participatory methodologies combined with the use of mobile health (mHealth) for CHW training program development. We completed a three-year prospective observational study aligned with the development of a community-based participatory CHW training program in Northern Uganda. Twenty-five CHWs were initially trained using a community participatory training methodology combined with mHealth and a train-the-trainer mod

SUBMITTER: Ebbs D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10191267 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature