Effect of Performance Feedback on Community Health Workers' Motivation and Performance in Madhya Pradesh, India: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Small-scale community health worker (CHW) programs provide basic health services and strengthen health systems in resource-poor settings. This paper focuses on improving CHW performance by providing individual feedback to CHWs working with an mHealth program to address malnutrition in children younger than 5 years.

Objective

The paper aims to evaluate the immediate and retention effects of providing performance feedback and supportive supervision on CHW motivation and performance for CHWs working with an mHealth platform to reduce malnutrition in five districts of Madhya Pradesh, India. We expected a positive impact on CHW performance for the indicator they received feedback on. Performance on indicators the CHW did not receive feedback on was not expected to chan

SUBMITTER: Kaphle S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5177738 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature