Supportive supervision from a roving nurse mentor in a community health worker programme: a process evaluation in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many low and middle- income countries (LMICs) are repositioning community health worker (CHW) programmes to provide a more comprehensive range of promotive and preventive services and referrals to the formal health service. However, insufficient supervision, fragmented programmes, and the low literacy levels of CHWs often result in the under-performance of the programmes. We evaluate the impact of a roving nurse mentor working with CHW teams proving supportive supervision in a semi-rural area of South Africa.

Methods

We conducted a longitudinal process evaluation, using in-depth interviews, focus groups and observations prior to the intervention, during the intervention, and 6 months post-intervention to assess how the effects of the intervention were generated an

SUBMITTER: Malatji H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8908295 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature