However, CHWs often primarily associated supervision to the handover of the monthly report and not always to obtaining guidance and assistance.
Thus, AL staff members are primarily needed for supervision and support of the more cognitively demanding IADLs.
Despite these successes, facility-based supervisors visit CHWs in their village an average of only once every 2.8 months, CHWs and supervisors still see supervision primarily as an opportunity to check reports, and meetings with district staff are infrequent and not well scheduled.
30 The HSAs are instructed to hold CCM clinics at scheduled days of the week in a central location in the village (such as in a church building or under a tree) and during the first year of implementation received CCM supervision primarily from the district IMCI coordinator, rather than their routine supervisors, environmental health officers and senior HSAs.
We also found, as have others [ 11, 40], that non-peer team members and managers emphasised the importance of management of boundaries, reinforced through training and supervision, primarily to protect Peer Workers themselves and enable them to maintain good mental health in the workplace.
Supervision incorporates interventions primarily focussing on the delivery of a supervision programme or the implementation of a supervision strategy.
"But rather than recommend that tackling be eliminated in youth football," she observes, "the AAP committee primarily proposed enhancing adult supervision of the sport".
Both within the literature[ 11, 12] and within current CHW policy in South Africa[ 37], supervision is primarily discussed in relation to quality assurance.
(CHW, male, age 54) Although our findings suggest that CHW supervision focuses primarily on accountability and report checking, CHWs overwhelmingly said they feel positive about supervision and appreciate the support offered by facility-based supervisors.
To tackle work-related musculoskeletal problems due to lifting, the Danish Work environment Authority currently uses a model for supervision that primarily focuses on the weight of the load and the perpendicular distance from the center of gravity.
