Trial reportJournal of global health2018
Improving Community Health Worker performance by using a personalised feedback dashboard for supervision: a randomised controlled trial.
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Improving Community Health Worker Performance by Using a Personalised Feedback Dashboard for Supervision: a Randomised Controlled Trial
Evaluation of a Mobile Application Tool for Increasing Community Health Worker Home Visit Coverage: A Randomized Controlled Study
Who cites it
37 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 91 citations in OpenAlex.
- Audit and feedback: effects on professional practice.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Exploring the content and delivery of feedback facilitation co-interventions: a systematic review.Implementation science : IS · 2024Pooled it
- A systematic review of the types, workload, and supervision mechanism of community health workers: lessons learned for Indonesia.BMC primary care · 2024Pooled it
- Effects of proactive vs fixed community health care delivery on child health and access to care: a cluster randomised trial secondary endpoint analysis.Journal of global health · 2023Trial
- Effect of mobile application user interface improvements on minimum expected home visit coverage by community health workers in Mali: a randomised controlled trial.BMJ global health · 2021Trial
- PROTOCOL: Artificial Intelligence and Other Digital Tools Used by, and for Community Health Workers (CHWs) in Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) to Improve Outcomes and Increase Effectiveness: An Evidence and Gap Map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Article
- The evolution of supportive supervision in low- and middle-income countries.BMC global and public health · 2026Review
- Non-communicable disease care in peri-urban Nepal: Potential for community-based interventions.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Helping to improve demand for mental health services: Reach and adoption of a community mental health education and detection tool by community health workers within routine care in South Africa.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
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- What does it take to design digitally enabled performance management and incentive interventions for community health programs: Lessons from Ethiopia.PLOS digital health · 2025Article
- A Landscape Analysis of Supportive Supervisory Mechanisms in Maternal and Child Health Programs in India.Cureus · 2025Review
- Implementation status, drivers and barriers to the sick children quality of care improving interventions in the Oromia region, Ethiopia: case study design.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- A realist perspective on optimizing community health workers' roles and functions to deliver integrated people-centred care.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Development, Implementation, and Evaluation Methods for Dashboards in Health Care: Scoping Review.JMIR medical informatics · 2024Article
- Combining OpenStreetMap mapping and route optimization algorithms to inform the delivery of community health interventions at the last mile.PLOS digital health · 2024Article
- Barriers and benefits of mHealth for community health workers in integrated community case management of childhood diseases in Banda Parish, Kampala, Uganda: a cross-sectional study.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- How Can Community Data Be Leveraged to Advance Primary Health Care? A Scoping Review of Community-Based Health Information Systems.Global health, science and practice · 2024Article
- How Outreach Training and Supportive Supervision (OTSS) Affect Health Facility Readiness and Health-Care Worker Competency to Prevent and Treat Malaria in Niger: A Secondary Analysis of OTSS Data.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Sustainability, spread, and scale in trials using audit and feedback: a theory-informed, secondary analysis of a systematic review.Implementation science : IS · 2023Article
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15 authors at 6 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundCountries across sub-Saharan Africa are scaling up Community Health Worker (CHW) programmes, yet there remains little high-quality research assessing strategies for CHW supervision and performance improvement. This randomised controlled trial aimed to determine the effect of a personalised performance dashboard used as a supervision tool on the quantity, speed, and quality of CHW care.
methodsWe conducted a randomised controlled trial in a large health catchment area in peri-urban Mali. One hundred forty-eight CHWs conducting proactive case-finding home visits were randomly allocated to receive individual monthly supervision with or without the CHW Performance Dashboard from January to June 2016. Randomisation was stratified by CHW supervisor, level of CHW experience, and CHW baseline performance for monthly quantity of care (number of household visits). With regression analysis, we used a difference-in-difference model to estimate the effect of the intervention on monthly quantity, timeliness (percentage of children under five treated within 24 hours of symptom onset), and quality (percentage of children under five treated without protocol error) of care over a six-month post-intervention period relative to a three-month pre-intervention period.
resultsUse of the Dashboard during monthly supervision significantly increased the mean number of home visits by 39.94 visits per month (95% CI = 3.56-76.3;
conclusionsOur findings suggest that dedicated monthly supervision and personalised feedback using performance dashboards can increase CHW productivity. Further operational research is needed to understand how to sustain the performance improvements over time.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov (NCT03684551).
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