IDEAS Phase 2 project – Village Health Worker Scheme sustainability study in Gombe State, Nigeria: Protocol and topic guides

Wickremasinghe, D. 2018. IDEAS Phase 2 project – Village Health Worker Scheme sustainability study in Gombe State, Nigeria: Protocol and topic guides. [Online]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001503.

Wickremasinghe, D. IDEAS Phase 2 project – Village Health Worker Scheme sustainability study in Gombe State, Nigeria: Protocol and topic guides [Internet]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine; 2018. Available from: https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001503.

Wickremasinghe, D (2018). IDEAS Phase 2 project – Village Health Worker Scheme sustainability study in Gombe State, Nigeria: Protocol and topic guides. [Data Collection]. London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.17037/DATA.00001503.

Description

The IDEAS project sought to improve the health and survival of mothers and babies by understanding the factors that would contribute to making a Village Health Worker Scheme sustainable at scale across Gombe State, northeastern Nigeria, where survival rates for mothers and babies are low compared with many other low and middle-income countries, in part due to a shortage of trained health care workers and to low levels of community awareness about health care services available. The scheme was initially introduced by the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency with implementation support from a national NGO, Society for Family Health, and external financial support. This collection comprises the protocol and semi-structured topic guides for three rounds of qualitative, in-depth interviews with key stakeholders from the Gombe State Primary Health Care Development Agency, and Society for Family Health in Sept 2017, Jan-Feb 2018 and Nov-Dec 2018. Focus group discussions were also held in Sept 2017 and Nov-Dec 2018 with local government area health service staff who now oversee the day to day running of the scheme, village health workers from two wards in the state, the primary health care staff who supervise them and members of the Ward Development Committees – local leaders responsible for community health. The final round of data collection also included four additional focus group discussions with women who had received support from village health workers and their children’s fathers.

Methods

Data capture method

Interview: Face-to-face, Interview: Telephone-delivery, Focus Group: Face-to-Face

Data Collection Period

From	To
September 2017	December 2018

Date (Date submitted to LSHTM repository)

3 December 2018

Geographical area covered (offline during plugin upgrade)

North Latitude	East Longitude	South Latitude	West Longitude
10.2464	11.2716	-0.175781	0

Language(s) of written materials

English

People & Groups

Data Creators	Wickremasinghe, D
Associated roles	Marchant, T (Principal Investigator), Wickremasinghe, D (Project Leader), Alkali, Y (Researcher) and Spicer, N (Project Member)
LSHTM Faculty/Department	Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases > Dept of Disease Control
Research Centre	Centre for Evaluation Centre for Maternal, Reproductive and Child Health (MARCH)
Participating Institutions	Childcare & Wellness Clinics, Abuja, Nigeria, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Projects

Funders

Project	Funder	Grant Number	Funder URI
IDEAS – Informed Decisions for Actions to improve maternal and newborn health	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	OPP1149259	http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000865

Additional Information

Date Deposited	05 Dec 2019 11:07
Last Modified	08 Jul 2021 12:52
Publisher	London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

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