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. 2021 Dec 9;3:100061. doi: 10.1016/j.hpopen.2021.100061

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics across district and by intervention, means.

Indicator Status at baseline
PBF(n = 78) C1 (n = 44) C2 (n = 45) Total (N = 167)
Accountability Measures
Overall Accountability Index −0.065 (0.746) −0.054 (0.548) 0.169 (1.581) 0.000 (1.000)
Single measures of Accountability
Facility has a Health Center Committee 0.939 (0.241) 0.978 (0.147) 0.978 (0.147) 0.960 (0.197)
Number of Health Center Committee meetings held in the last 12 months 3.917 (2.306) 4.591 (3.164) 4.772 (3.124) 4.338 (2.806)
Facility has written records of the health centre committee meetings 0.935 (0.248) 0.978 (0.149) 0.978 (0.149) 0.958 (0.201)
Facility budget developed for the current financial year 0.771 (0.423) 0.860 (0.351) 0.805 (0.401) 0.805 0.397
Facility has a work plan for the current financial year 0.851 (0.358) 0.791 (0.412) 0.889 (0.319) 0.843 0.365
Number of health facility staff meetings held in the last 3 months 2.873 (2.927) 2.864 (1.995) 2.821 (2.594) 2.857 (2.591)
Number of supervisory or technical visits made to the health facility by the health centre committee in the past 3 months 2.043 (3.544) 1.205 (1.211) 1.474 (2.165) 1.658 (2.729)
Number of supervisory or technical support visits by a district hospital representative in the last 3 months 1.061 (1.842) 1.739 (3.460) 1.533 (5.930) 1.364 (3.717)
Number of supervisory visits by the District Health Office (DHO) in the last 3 months 1.432 (1.816) 1.848 (1.460) 3.600 (13.226) 2.110 (6.924)
Number of visits made by the health facility to community health workers for supervision or technical support in the last 3 months 4.185 (0.940) 3.587 (6.210) 4.489 (10.92) 4.1 (8.594)
Number of internal staff performance assessment in the last 12 months 2.272 (3.718) 2.318 (3.056) 2.867 (7.232) 2.441 4.754
Number of external staff performance assessment in the last 12 months 1.877 (1.812) 1.956 (1.882) 2.178 (1.874) 1.977 1.841
Number of external facility performance assessment in the last 12 months 1.925 (2.151) 1.667 (1.000) 1.844 (1.906) 1.835 (1.839)
Autonomy Measures
Overall Autonomy Index −0.037 (1.050) −0.132 (1.028) 0.192 (0.866) 0.000 (1.000)
Single measures of Autonomy
Able to allocate my facility budget 0.769 (0.424) 0.681 (0.471) 0.800 (0.404) 0.754 (0.431)
Able to assign tasks and activities to staff 0.872 (0.336) 0.863 (0.347) 0.822 (0.387) 0.856 (0.352)
DHO supports my decisions and actions for doing a better job in my facility 0.871 (0.336) 0.727 (0.450) 0.889 (0.318) 0.838 (0.369)
Choice over whom I allocate tasks to 0.769 (0.424) 0.727 (0.451) 0.822 (0.387) 0.077 (0.421)
Choice over what services are provided in the facility 0.603 (0.493) 0.613 (0.493) 0.756 (0.435) 0.647 (0.479)
Enough authority to procure (drugs, supplies, services etc.) 0.717 (0.453) 0.795 (0.408) 0.800 (0.405) 0.760 (0.428)
Policies and procedures for doing things are clear to me 0.910 (0.288) 0.977 (0.151) 1.000 (0.000) 0.952 (0.214)
Policies and procedures for doing things are useful tools for the challenges faced 0.923 (0.268) 0.954 (0.211) 1.000 (0.000) 0.952 (0.214)
DHO provides adequate feedback to me about my job and the performance of my facility 0.744 (0.439) 0.682 (0.471) 0.667 (0.477) 0.707 (0.457)
Infrastructure index −0.133 (0.931) 0.217 (1.057) 0.010 (1.049) 0.000 (1.000)
Total number of patients 1395.6 (1952.7) 1163.8 (1842.2) 1258.9 (1599.0) 1295.03 (1827.49)
Facility type 1.159 (0.400) 1.109 (0.315) 1.130 (0.400) 1.138 (0.378)

Note: Standard deviation in parenthesis.