Association between supportive supervision and performance of community health workers in India: a longitudinal multi-level analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Community health workers (CHWs) deliver services at-scale to reduce maternal and child undernutrition, but often face inadequate support from the health system to perform their job well. Supportive supervision is a promising intervention that strengthens the health system and can enable CHWs to offer quality services.

Objectives

We examined if greater intensity of supportive supervision as defined by monitoring visits to Anganwadi Centre, CHW-supervisor meetings, and training provided by supervisors to CHWs in the context of Integrated Child Services Development (ICDS), a national nutrition program in India, is associated with higher performance of CHWs. Per program guidelines, we develop the performance of CHWs measure by using an additive score of nutrition se

SUBMITTER: Gopalakrishnan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8627081 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature