Table 2.

characteristics of healthcare workers (HCWs) participating in health facility survey and individual interviews in three regions in Ghana, baseline survey, March 2016

	Northern RegionN=110 HCWs	Volta RegionN=103 HCWs	Greater Accra RegionN=109 HCWs
	Number of responses (%)++	Number of responses (%)++	Number of responses (%)++
Designation of participant
Community health nurse	70 (64)	60 (58)	50 (46)
In-Charge/Principal community health nurse	9 (8)	27 (26)	34 (31)
Senior community health nurse	4 (4)	10 (10)	19 (17)
Disease control officer	20 (18)	0 (0)	0 (0)
Other+	7 (6)	6 (6)	6 (6)
Mean number of HCWs who administer immunizations at health facility	2	3	3
Mean number of years participant working in immunization services	4	4	8
Mean number of years participant working in immunization services at current health facility	2	3	3
Number of individual HCWs selected for one-on-one interviews	N = 72 HCWs	N = 85 HCWs	N = 83 HCWs
Immunization job duties
Administering immunizations	67 (89)	83 (99)	81 (96)
Health education/Counseling	53 (72)	69 (84)	69 (82)
Recording in tallying books	24 (36)	48 (58)	55 (65)
Registering children	32 (50)	47 (57)	46 (52)
Home visits	16 (21)	39 (50)	32 (37)
Writing monthly reports	18 (24)	33 (42)	33 (36)
Managing immunization stock	15 (21)	14 (17)	18 (22)
Supervising others who administer immunizations	3 (4)	6 (10)	6 (7)
Defaulter tracing	1 (1)	3 (2)	1 (1)
Cold chain	0 (0)	2 (2)	1 (1)
Time since last formal EPI training
<1 year	14 (18)	13 (15)	34 (38)
>1 year	15 (23)	25 (28)	17 (26)
Don't know	43 (59)	47 (58)	32 (37)

⁺Other includes: superintendent community health nurse, field technician, community mental health officer, nutrition officer, public health nurse

⁺⁺percentages account for clustering at the primary sampling unit (district) level and sampling weights