Improving Community Health Worker performance by using a personalised feedback dashboard for supervision: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Countries across sub-Saharan Africa are scaling up Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes, yet there remains little high-quality research assessing strategies for CHW supervision and performance improvement. This randomised controlled trial aimed to determine the effect of a personalised performance dashboard used as a supervision tool on the quantity, speed, and quality of CHW care.

Methods

We conducted a randomised controlled trial in a large health catchment area in peri-urban Mali. One hundred forty-eight CHWs conducting proactive case-finding home visits were randomly allocated to receive individual monthly supervision with or without the CHW Performance Dashboard from January to June 2016. Randomisation was stratified by CHW supervisor, level of CHW experi

SUBMITTER: Whidden C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6162089 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature