A continuous quality improvement intervention to improve the effectiveness of community health workers providing care to mothers and children: a cluster randomised controlled trial in South Africa.

CONCLUSIONS: Improved training and CQI-based mentoring of CHWs can improve quantity and quality of CHW-mother interactions at household level, leading to improvements in mothers' knowledge and infant feeding practices.
TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.Gov NCT01774136.
PMID: 28610590 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Rural Remote Health - June 13, 2017 Category: Rural Health Authors: Horwood C, Butler L, Barker P, Phakathi S, Haskins L, Grant M, Mntambo N, Rollins N Tags: Hum Resour Health Source Type: research