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. 2012 Mar 7;3(1):e3. doi: 10.4081/jphia.2012.e3

Table 2.

Perceptions of peer educators (PE) and health care workers (HCW) of PE adherence counseling contributions.

Peer educators
(n=29)
Agree or strongly agree
Health care workers
(n=53)
Agree or strongly agree
PEs help reduce the amount of counseling the rest of the clinic staff must perform. 28 (96.6%) 50 (96.1%), 1 missing
PEs do as good a job of counseling patients as health care workers. 23 (79.3%) 48 (90.6%)
Health staff are able to see more patients. 22 (75.9%) 44 (83.0%)
Nurses, clinical officers, pharmacists are able to spend more time with individual patients. 22 (78.6%), 1 missing 30 (56.6%)
Health staff can spend more time talking to patients about issues other than adherence. 25 (86.2%) N/A
HCWs spend less time talking to patients about adherence. N/A 45 (84.9%)