Evaluating the effect of innovative motivation and supervision approaches on community health worker performance and retention in Uganda and Mozambique: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Källander, Karin ^a,b,c   Strachan, Daniel ^d   Soremekun, Seyi ^e   Hill, Zelee ^d   Lingam, Raghu ^e   Tibenderana, James ^a   Kasteng, Frida ^e   Vassall, Anna ^e   Meek, Sylvia ^a   Kirkwood, Betty ^e  

^a MALARIA CONSORTIUM   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community health worker; diarrhoea; integrated community case management; malaria; pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD DEATH; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; MALARIA; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOTIVATION; MOZAMBIQUE; PNEUMONIA; PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UGANDA; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BENCHMARKING; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COOPERATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MANPOWER; MASS COMMUNICATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PSYCHOLOGY; TELEMEDICINE;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BENCHMARKING; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DIARRHEA; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALARIA; MOTIVATION; MOZAMBIQUE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PERSONNEL TURNOVER; PNEUMONIA; TELEMEDICINE; UGANDA;

EID: 84929297666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-015-0657-6     Document Type: Article

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