Table 3 Exposure of female and male participants to community health workers (CHWs) and associated CHW services in Balkh, Herat, and Kandahar provinces, Afghanistan 2018
CHW exposure indicator | Province (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Women | Men | |||||
Balkh (n = 158) | Herat (n = 168) | Kandahar (n = 150) | Balkh (n = 158) | Herat (n = 161) | Kandahar (n = 149) | |
Any CHW exposure in the past month | 80.4 | 74.4 | 50.0 | 90.5 | 57.8 | 53.0 |
Number of home visits by a CHW in last month | ||||||
No visits | 43.7 | 28.0 | 54.0 | 8.2 | 36.0 | 52.4 |
1 visit | 19.6 | 22.0 | 10.0 | 36.7 | 9.9 | 9.4 |
2 visits | 19.0 | 19.1 | 5.3 | 39.2 | 11.8 | 13.4 |
3 or more visits | 15.2 | 21.4 | 10.7 | 5.1 | 18.0 | 8.1 |
Don’t know | 2.5 | 8.9 | 2.0 | 10.1 | 21.7 | 8.7 |
Declined to respond | 0.0 | 0.6 | 18.0 | 0.6 | 2.5 | 8.1 |
Number of times visited a CHW at health post in last month | ||||||
None | 26.6 | 22.0 | 42.7 | 16.5 | 31.1 | 43.6 |
1 time | 19.6 | 19.1 | 12.7 | 23.4 | 14.9 | 10.7 |
2 times | 19.0 | 24.4 | 12.7 | 19.0 | 13.0 | 12.8 |
3 or more times | 30.4 | 21.4 | 12.0 | 31.0 | 14.3 | 14.1 |
Don’t know | 3.2 | 11.3 | 0.7 | 10.1 | 20.5 | 6.7 |
Declined to respond | 1.3 | 1.8 | 19.3 | 0.0 | 6.2 | 12.1 |
Heard of health video library program shown by CHWs | 63.3 | 67.3 | 31.3 | 37.8 | 23.0 | 28.2 |
Respondent had seen at least one video shown by CHW | 60.1 | 67.3 | 15.3 | 8.2 | 11.2 | 16.8 |