Taking knowledge for health the extra mile: participatory evaluation of a mobile phone intervention for community health workers in Malawi

Campbell, Natalie; Schiffer, Eva; Buxbaum, Ann; McLean, Elizabeth; Perry, Cary; Sullivan, Tara M.

doi:10.9745/ghsp-d-13-00141

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“…The different data sets allow for triangulation between network structures and narratives (Gamper et al 2012). There are many descriptions of data collection processes using the Net-Map tool (e.g., Hauck 2010, Schiffer and Hauck 2010, Aberman et al 2012, Bell et al 2013, Campbell et al 2014, Stein et al 2014, therefore, we only briefly describe it here.…”

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Using social network analysis to identify key stakeholders in agricultural biodiversity governance and related land-use decisions at regional and local level

Hauck¹,

Schmidt²,

Werner³

2016

E&S

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. 2016. Using social network analysis to identify key stakeholders in agricultural biodiversity governance and related land-use decisions at regional and local level. Ecology and Society 21 (2) ABSTRACT. In 2013 the European Commission launched its new green infrastructure strategy to make another attempt to stop and possibly reverse the loss of biodiversity until 2020, by connecting habitats in the wider landscape. This means that conservation would go beyond current practices to include landscapes that are dominated by conventional agriculture, where biodiversity conservation plays a minor role at best. The green infrastructure strategy aims at bottom-up rather than top-down implementation, and suggests including local and regional stakeholders. Therefore, it is important to know which stakeholders influence land-use decisions concerning green infrastructure at the local and regional level. The research presented in this paper served to select stakeholders in preparation for a participatory scenario development process to analyze consequences of different implementation options of the European green infrastructure strategy. We used a mix of qualitative and quantitative social network analysis (SNA) methods to combine actors' attributes, especially concerning their perceived influence, with structural and relational measures. Further, our analysis provides information on institutional backgrounds and governance settings for green infrastructure and agricultural policy. The investigation started with key informant interviews at the regional level in administrative units responsible for relevant policies and procedures such as regional planners, representatives of federal ministries, and continued at the local level with farmers and other members of the community. The analysis revealed the importance of information flows and regulations but also of social pressure, considerably influencing biodiversity governance with respect to green infrastructure and biodiversity.

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Using social network analysis to identify key stakeholders in agricultural biodiversity governance and related land-use decisions at regional and local level

Hauck¹,

Schmidt²,

Werner³

2016

E&S

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“… 3 Several studies in Malawi have shown that mobile phones have the capacity to increase communication with distant communities and strengthen health programs. 15 , 16 …”

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Real-Time Assessments of the Strength of Program Implementation for Community Case Management of Childhood Illness: Validation of a Mobile Phone-Based Method in Malawi

Hazel¹,

Amouzou²,

Park³

et al. 2015

The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

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Health surveillance assistants (HSAs) in Malawi have provided community case management (CCM) since 2008; however, program monitoring remains challenging. Mobile technology holds the potential to improve data, but rigorous assessments are few. This study tested the validity of collecting CCM implementation strength indicators through mobile phone interviews with HSAs. This validation study compared mobile phone interviews with information obtained through inspection visits. Sensitivity and specificity were measured to determine validity. Using mobile phones to interview HSAs on CCM implementation strength indicators produces accurate information. For deployment, training, and medicine stocks, the specificity and sensitivity of the results were excellent (> 90%). The sensitivity and specificity of this method for drug stock-outs, supervision, and mentoring were lower but with a few exceptions, still above 80%. This study provided a rigorous assessment of the accuracy of implementation strength data collected through mobile technologies and is an important step forward for evaluation of public health programs.

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“…The tool addresses several problems that may occur during conventional interviews, such as reaching transparency and common understanding through visualizing the situation, overcoming shyness or the will to talk and creating a comfortable atmosphere that keeps the participants involved, which in the end improves not only social learning but also the quality of the interview data (Campbell et al, 2014;Schiffer and Waale, 2008).…”

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Strengths and weaknesses of the Net-Map tool for participatory social network analysis in resource management: Experience from case studies conducted on four continents

Schröter

Sattler

Graef

et al. 2018

Methodological Innovations

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For researchers, conducting face-to-face interviews is always a challenge as it often turns into a one-way directed information retrieval. Therefore, interviewees not always are very motivated, enthusiastic and cooperative in responding to the questions. In the end, this has implications for the quality of the interview data. To improve the interview setting and the resulting data, in several projects the Net-Map tool was used to conduct participatory social network analysis. The tool is a combination of indepth interviews and participatory network mapping. During the interviews, the interviewee draws the network of relevant actors, notes down their motivations and evaluates and displays the actors' influence and benefits by building towers using any kind of stacks. In this research note, we present the strengths and weaknesses of the method against the experiences with applying the Net-Map tool on four different continents and give ideas for improvements and further research.

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Taking knowledge for health the extra mile: participatory evaluation of a mobile phone intervention for community health workers in Malawi

Cited by 37 publications

References 9 publications

Using social network analysis to identify key stakeholders in agricultural biodiversity governance and related land-use decisions at regional and local level

Using social network analysis to identify key stakeholders in agricultural biodiversity governance and related land-use decisions at regional and local level

Real-Time Assessments of the Strength of Program Implementation for Community Case Management of Childhood Illness: Validation of a Mobile Phone-Based Method in Malawi

Strengths and weaknesses of the Net-Map tool for participatory social network analysis in resource management: Experience from case studies conducted on four continents

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