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Table 2 A synopsis of an observation checklist used in TAM study

From: Time motion study using mixed methods to assess service delivery by frontline health workers from South India: methods

S.NO

Category

Sub-category

1.

Travel

Home to field (to-fro)

Home to facility (to-fro)

Within field

Facility to field (to-fro)

2.

Service delivery and counselling

Maternal health

Child health

Nutrition

Communicable diseases

Non-communicable diseases

Seasonal diseases/epidemics/outbreaks

Curative care

Blindness/cataract

3.

Home visits

Health checkups

Counselling

4.

Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities among groups or at a community level

Maternal health

Child health

Family planning

Nutrition

Communicable diseases

Non-communicable diseases

Other health related

Mobilisation

Any other

5.

Health camps

No sub-category

6.

School health

IEC in schools

Service delivery and counselling

7.

Adolescent health

Service delivery and counselling

IEC for adolescents

Any other

8.

Nutrition and health day (NHD)

IEC activity on NHD day

Service delivery

Any other

9.

Universal immunisation day

Administrative

Service delivery

Paperwork

Any other

10.

Paperwork

Filling up registers

Computer data entry

Preparing reports

Maintaining beneficiary records

Any other

11.

Meetings with co-workers or village community

No sub-categories

12.

Meetings with seniors

13.

Trainings

14.

Administrative

15.

Personal work

Telephonic communication

Non-telephonic communication

Lunch

Any other

16.

Non-health- but work-related activities

Related to health department

Related to other departments

External agency related

17.

Waiting

For patients

For staff

For others

18.

Any other

 
  1. Each of the categories had further exhaustive list of activities which were to be selected based on field performance; however, time was measured only up till sub-categories