An exploration of facilitators and challenges in the scale-up of a national, public sector community health worker cadre in Zambia: a qualitative study

Table 1 Number of interviews and focus groups, by site

Province	Health post number	Number and gender of CHA	Number of focus group participants	Supervisor qualification	Supervisor location
Eastern	HP1	2 males	7	Enrolled Nurse	HP
Eastern	HP2	1 male, 1 female	16	Enrolled Nurse	HP
North Western	HP3	2 males	7	Clinical Officer^a	RHC
North Western	HP4	1 male,^a 1 female	12	Clinical Officer^a	RHC
Muchinga	HP5	1 male, 1 female	8	Enrolled Nurse	HP
Muchinga	HP6	1 male, 1 female^a	7	Enrolled Nurse	HP
Western	HP7	2 females	12	EHT	RHC
Western	HP8	1 male, 1 female^a	7	Registered Nurse^a	RHC
Central	HP9	1 male,^a 1 female	9	Enrolled Nurse	RHC
Central	HP10	1 male, 1 female	8	Clinical Officer^a	HP
Total number of Interviews/FGDs		16 CHA interviews (8 females, 8 males)	10 FGDs with 93 participants	6 supervisor interviews (2 females, 4 males)

EHT Environmental Health Technologist, HP health post, RHC Rural Health Center, FGD focus group discussion
^aNot available for interview

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