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Table 4 Monetary and non-monetary compensation of community health workers associated with notification impact

From: What makes community health worker models for tuberculosis active case finding work? A cross-sectional study of TB REACH projects to identify success factors for increasing case notifications

 

LI (n = 15)

MI (n = 16)

HI (n = 19)

Total (n = 50)

p-value╪

Monetary compensation

 Earned only a fixed component (salary or stipend)

5 (33%)

6 (38%)

7 (37%)

18 (36%)

0.783

 Earned only a variable component (incentives)1

3 (20%)

3 (19%)

2 (11%)

8 (16%)

 Earned both a fixed and variable component

5 (33%)

7 (44%)

7 (37%)

19 (38%)

 No monetary compensation

2 (13%)

0 (0%)

3 (16%)

5 (10%)

 Average total compensation/month (USD)2

127.77

210.62

127.51

153.31

0.106

 Average fixed compensation/month (USD)

97.31

172.31

107.61

124.44

0.219

 Average variable compensation/month (USD)

30.46

38.31

19.91

28.87

0.523

Non-monetary incentives3

 Priority access to TB/HIV or other disease testing

3/13 (23%)

4/12 (33%)

9/18 (50%)

16/43 (37%)

0.294

 Health insurance

2/13 (15%)

1/11 (9%)

4/19 (22%)

7/43 (17%)

0.780

  1. N sizes are listed for variables with missing values
  2. 1: 2 (4%) respondent missing information on questions asked
  3. 2: 8 (16%) respondent missing information on questions asked
  4. 3: 7 (14%) respondent missing information on questions asked
  5. ╪Fisher’s exact test and Chi-square tests: comparing proportions that is conditional on frequencies; ANOVA test: comparing means