A new tool to measure approaches to supervision from the perspective of community health workers: a prospective, longitudinal, validation study in seven countries

Table 1 Summary of CHW demographics and sampling methods employed across all seven study locations

	Sierra Leone	Bangladesh	Ethiopia	Indonesia	Kenya	Malawi	Mozambique
Cadre	CHW	CTC	HEW	Village midwives	CHW/CHEW	HSA	APE
Sampling method	Convenience	Convenience	Convenience	Convenience	Convenience	Random	Convenience
Language^a	Krio, Mende, English	Bangla	Amharic	Basha-Indonesia	English, Swahili, Kamba	Chichewa	Portuguese, Ronga, Changane
Sample size	327	119	108	230	51	124	78
Sex (Female %)	54.7%	75.6%	100%	97.0%	76.5%	38.7%	61.5%
Completed Secondary Education	28.9%	12.3%	99.1%	28.3%	34.1%	79.5%	0%

CHW Community health worker, CTC Close to Community health service providers, HEW Health extension worker, CHEW Community health extension worker, HAS Health surveillance assistants, APE Agentes polivalentes elementares, SD Standard deviation
^aIn the case of oral languages (i.e. Mende), the questionnaire was ultimately left in English and administered by an enumerator in the language most familiar to the participants

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