The relationship between QOL and social support provisions found in this study is supportive of the findings in previous QOL and CRC research.
The participants' views and experiences on supportive management were categorized under the three subheadings of "provision of job related supports," "provision of financial support," and "provision of emotional support".
These should include strategies for improved referral transportation, training of health workers, supportive supervision, provision of supplies, and sensitization.
Health workers were quite supportive of provision of free care, and it appears they would be more so if additional health staff could be deployed to cope with the higher workload and the income previously raised from fees could be compensated to buy essentials for the facility.
Of prime importance and long overdue is an inclusive discussion on the appropriate testable, scientific hypotheses and methodologies that are supportive of the provisions and tasks formulated by the EU legal framework on risk assessment of GM organisms.
The experience in Malawi shows that clinicians and other health managers can be supportive of the provision of limited clinical services by lower-level health workers.
The majority of service providers, were supportive of the provision of HIV-related services to young people including VCT and ARVs.
Likewise, supportive supervision without provision of the needed drugs and supplies will be inadequate as CHWs will not have the tools to properly deliver their services and will lose the respect of the community.
However, in a recently published paper by Ayieko and colleagues[ 16] evaluating the parent study in these hospitals it was demonstrated that face to face feedback of performance, supportive supervision and provision of a local facilitator but no additional material resources did result in improvements of paediatric care and the readiness for providing care over the same period.
The health promotion and counseling roles of frontline health workers in Bauchi and Sokoto States, who are well placed to engender community trust, should be strengthened through re-training, the provision of appropriate kits, and the provision of supportive supervision.
