Competency in supportive supervision: a study of public sector medicines management supervisors in Uganda.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Supportive supervision has been found to be more effective than corrective fault-oriented inspections. Uganda's Ministry of Health in 2012 implemented a comprehensive strategy (SPARS) to build medicines management capacity in public sector health facilities. The approach includes supportive supervision. This structured observational study assesses supportive supervision competency among medicines management supervisors (MMS).

Method

The study used structured observations of two groups of five purposely selected MMS-one group supervising facilities with greater medicines management improvement during one year of SPARS and one group with less improvement, based on quantitative metrics. We observed and scored behaviors and skills of supervisors in 11 categories deeme

SUBMITTER: Henry R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5637320 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature