Determining whether Community Health Workers are 'Deployment Ready' Using Standard Setting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community Health Workers (CHWs) provide basic health screening and advice to members of their own communities. Although CHWs are trained, no CHW programmes have used a formal method to identify the level of achievement on post-training assessments that distinguishes "safe" from "unsafe". Objectives: The aim of this study was to use Ebel method of standard setting for a post-training written knowledge assessment for CHWs in Neno, Malawi.

Methods

12 participants agreed the definitions of a "just-deployment ready" and an "ideal" CHW. Participants rated the importance and difficulty of each question on a three-point scale and also indicated the proportion of "just-deployment ready" CHWs expected to answer each of the nine question types correctly. Mean scores were use

SUBMITTER: Taylor C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6748218 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature