Measuring motivation among close-to-community health workers: developing the CTC Provider Motivational Indicator Scale across six countries.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Close-to-community (CTC) health service providers are a cost-effective and important resource in the promotion of and increasing access to health services. However, many CTC provider programmes suffer from high rates of de-motivation and attrition due to inadequate support systems. Recent literature has identified the lack of rigorous approaches towards measuring and monitoring motivation among CTC providers as an important gap. Building on scales used in previous studies, we set out to develop a short, simple-to-administer scale to monitor and measure indicators of CTC provider motivation across CTC programmes implemented in six countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Indonesia, and Bangladesh.

Methods

We used focus group discussions (n = 18) and intervie

SUBMITTER: Vallieres F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7395979 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature