Research

Community Health Workers Versus Nurses as Counselors or Case Managers in a Self-Help Diabetes Management Program

In order to confirm the effectiveness of community health workers’ involvement as counselors or case managers in a self-help diabetes management program among Korean Americans in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, a randomized controlled trial was utilized. Different groups were counselled by either a CHW or an RN, with the CHW’s performance being comparable to the RN … [Read more...] about Community Health Workers Versus Nurses as Counselors or Case Managers in a Self-Help Diabetes Management Program

A randomized trial evaluates the effectiveness of a CHW program in Kenya which implements home visits or calls to new mothers three days after delivery. Surveys were utilized to measure compliance, self-reported health problems, care-seeking behaviors, and postnatal knowledge and practices among new mothers who received one of three randomly assigned postnatal care practices. … [Read more...] about Can a community health worker administered postnatal checklist increase health-seeking behaviors and knowledge?: evidence from a randomized trial with a private maternity facility in Kiambu County, Kenya

Using a life history approach, 26 Northern Ugandan health workers with experience working in the public and private not-for-profit (PNFP) sectors were interviewed to reveal their experiences both during and after the Northern Uganda conflict and to better understand what influenced these health workers to move between these two sectors. Most workers moved from the PNFP to the … [Read more...] about Health worker experiences of and movement between public and private not-for-profit sectors—findings from post-conflict Northern Uganda

Researchers attempted to review community-based Integrated Care of the Child (AIN-C), a growth-monitoring program, using a recently designed logic model proposing categories of support from both health sector and communities that influence community health worker performance and program outcomes. Retrospectively reviewing AIN-C using in-depth interviews, gaps in the logic model … [Read more...] about A retrospective review of the Honduras AIN-C program guided by a community health worker performance logic model

Using mobile job aids can help CHWs deliver integrated counseling on family planning and HIV/STI screening by following a step-by-step service delivery algorithm. Lessons learned during the pilot led to the development of additional features during scale-up to exploit the other major advantages that mHealth offers … [Read more...] about Family Planning Counseling in Your Pocket: A Mobile Job Aid for Community Health Workers in Tanzania