From: Malaria control in rural Malawi: implementing peer health education for behaviour change
Year | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | All |
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(n = 39) | (n = 52) | (n = 81) | (n = 172) | |
Strengths | ||||
Participants able to ask and/or answer questions | 31% | 38% | 46% | 40% |
Active participation | 38% | 12% | 16% | 20% |
Participants able to follow/understand the topic | 21% | 13% | 11% | 14% |
Time management | 3% | 4% | 6% | 5% |
Participants able to give comments | 0% | 4% | 5% | 3% |
Areas needing improvement | ||||
Conducting drama, songs or poems | 21% | 25% | 36% | 29% |
People to come on time | 13% | 27% | 15% | 18% |
None needed | 0% | 10% | 19% | 12% |
Encourage people to come to the community workshops | 21% | 13% | 4% | 10% |
Animator needs to prepare for the day’s topic | 18% | 4% | 9% | 9% |
Timely inform village chief about next community workshop | 10% | 2% | 0% | 3% |
Community concerns | ||||
Inadequate health services nearby | 13% | 23% | 17% | 18% |
Insufficient bed nets received | 21% | 6% | 19% | 15% |
Delayed distribution of bed nets | 49% | 4% | 0% | 12% |
Need for house improvement and/or larval source management | 3% | 10% | 10% | 8% |
Need to continue the community workshops | 0% | 4% | 5% | 3% |
Implementation problems | ||||
None reported | 0% | 25% | 35% | 24% |
Rains (affecting attendance) | 31% | 21% | 11% | 19% |
Funerals (affecting attendance) | 5% | 23% | 14% | 15% |
Low attendance | 26% | 2% | 6% | 9% |
Sickness (affecting attendance) | 3% | 12% | 9% | 8% |
Inadequate materials | 0% | 6% | 6% | 5% |