Table 2.

Knowledge and attitude of supervisors in IDs and CDs

Attributes	ID N=72	CD N=39	Sig.
Motivating supervisee is an important function of RI supervision	4.53	4.90	0.000
Punishment is sometimes required during supportive supervision	1.99	1.85	0.05
Seeking information from the supervisee is important for problem solving	4.33	4.51	0.369
Supervision is important to improve supervisee's performance	4.43	4.85	0.000
Supervision provides information for planning at all levels	4.25	4.51	0.715
Relevant new information on RI should not be given directly to the health worker during supervision	2.69	3.08	0.234
All mistakes should be immediately pointed out to the ANM in the presence of community members during the session	2.07	1.62	0.869

ID: intervention district; CD: control district; RI=routine immunization; ANM=auxiliary nurse and midwife.

For all the items mentioned in the table, the Likert scale ranged from 1 to 5, where 1=strongly disagree and 5=strongly agree.