Table 1 Selected codes, categories and themes
From: Hope and despair: community health assistants’ experiences of working in a rural district in Zambia
Codes | Categories | Themes |
|---|---|---|
-Advertising CHA position | CHA recruitment process | Becoming a Community Health Assistant |
-CHA selection committee | ||
-Attending CHA interviews | ||
-Training in community health services | Motivation for becoming A CHA | |
-Working as community health worker | ||
-Working as traditional birth attendant | ||
-Member of neighbourhood health committee | ||
-Desire to solve community health problems | ||
-Bringing health services close | ||
-Being part of community | ||
-Wanting to get a better job | ||
- Desire to improve skills | ||
-Hope to enhance experience | ||
-Conducting tasks at health post | Enhancing professional skills | CHA Experiences at the health posts |
-Participating in meetings at health post | ||
-Restricted duties at health post | Exclusion of CHAs from the health post | |
-Misallocation of tasks | ||
-Limited sharing of resources | ||
-Supervisor’s knowledge of programme | Supervision and work performance | |
-Participating in supervisory meetings | ||
-Review of CHA reports | ||
-Payment processes | Monthly incentives and work motivation | |
-Type of services provided in the community | Addressing health problems in the community | Experiences in the Community |
-Support from the community | ||
-Respect from the community |