Table 1.

Categories of activities observed and their descriptions

Category	Description of activities
Patient Interaction	Providing any form of clinical or preventive care to a patient including consultations and counselling.
Data related activities	Activities covering:  - General administration  - Registration of patients  - Tallying of any form for reporting purposes*  - Monthly reports to higher levels of facility information  - Any other data management activities.
Meetings	Attending to meetings which has relation to their work including trainings, ward development committee meetings.
Social and supportive activities	Engaging in interactions or exchanges with members of the community or other colleagues from other facilities, which has no bearing with their work, time spent attending to visitors who come to the clinic for other purposes other than healthcare, like to make enquiries, supply materials.
Personal Needs	These are considered as activities for the health workers well-being such as breaks, attending to personal needs like eating, using the convenience, telephone use, praying.
Absence	Absence from work.
Others	Any other activity not earlier listed under the other categories such as waiting for patients.

*Tallying involves the use of pen and sheets to make marks and take note of the occurrence of health events or indicators with the purpose of facilitating the aggregation of individual data into a composite form