Balancing workload, motivation and job satisfaction in Rwanda: assessing the effect of adding family planning service provision to community health worker duties

Table 2 Weekly time in hours spent on CHW work-related activities by study group

Activity	Control (N = 195)		Intervention (N = 188)		Test statistic
Activity	Mean	Range	Mean	Range	p-value
Providing individual services to clients	6.1	0.5–21.2	6.5	0.5–25.0	0.320
Book-keeping/administrative tasks	2.2	0–24.5	1.7	0–7.8	0.012^a
Meetings, training, and supervision	4.1	0–29.6	5.8	0–36.2	0.005^a
Community sensitization	0.9	0–8.2	1.2	0–7.0	0.049^a
Travel to/from clinic and home visits	5.6	0–20.4	5.6	0–16.3	0.848
Other work-related activities	1.7	0–18.7	2.7	0–39.7	0.059
Total time spent overall each month per CHW	20.5	2.0–67.8	19.4	2.1–50.8	0.054

^aIndicates a significant difference between the control and intervention group’s time spent on that activity

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