To avoid contamination of the control MCH centres with the WWWT programme, MCH staff members are asked at the Facilitator Training workshops to avoid discussion with their colleagues in control MCH centres about the WWWT programme materials, training and delivery, for the duration of the trial.
Recommendations: 1.That a simple guide to facilitating sensitisation workshops be made in line with the MOE educational policy to avoid facilitators straying off key issues.
However, to avoid this, facilitators combined the results of observations with those from interviews with postpartum women, which in turn would reflect practices in absence of a facilitator.
To avoid this, facilitators should encourage their students to be active and share responsibility for the learning outcome of the EPC days.
The trustworthiness and authenticity of the resulting analysis was addressed by consulting the ABC course facilitators; this approach was taken to avoid placing further time burdens on participant by asking them to fulfil additional participant validation functions [ 18].
It was felt important to avoid turning the facilitators into educators, and therefore a participatory form of health education was developed, based around a picture card game.
To avoid contamination the facilitators in the resourceful adolescent programme and attention control groups received separate initial training and ongoing supervision.
The facilitator should do his or her best to avoid prejudicing the process or the outcome in any way.
Facilitators would not necessarily have to be doctors, to avoid conflicts with insurance and nationally recognized accreditation bodies.
