Within each practice, individual health professionals were assigned the aggregated variable for each of the two behaviours.
We defined positive care-seeking behavioral change as changing from doing nothing, self-medication, or home remedies to consulting health personnel, visiting health facilities where health professionals were assigned, and changing from using a rural health post to health center or a private clinic.
One success factor, according to health professionals, was assigning a contact person, usually a nurse or a physiotherapist, to each participant.
Success factors reported by health professionals were assigning every patient with a contact person, using clinical tests results to motivate patients, and supervising health professionals in patients' local municipalities.
Each professional was assigned a support investigator to clarify any doubts which may arise during the study period.
UNICEF has also supported the Child Development Agency in training teams of guidance counsellors and other human service professionals who are assigned to provide counselling to children in schools in the affected areas.
Patient-caregiver dyads who withdraw from the study will continue to receive treatment from the professional they are assigned to.
This seven point classification is based on a person's occupation whereby professional workers are assigned a score of one, managerial and technical workers a score of two, non-manual workers three, skilled manual workers four, semi-skilled workers five, unskilled six, and all others gainfully occupied and unknown seven.
Other professional and technical staff are assigned to these grades on the basis of salary.
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