Table 2.

A synopsis of an observation checklist used in TAM study

S.NO	Category	Sub-category
1.	Travel	Home to field (to-fro) Home to facility (to-fro) Within field Facility to field (to-fro)
2.	Service delivery and counselling	Maternal health Child health Nutrition Communicable diseases Non-communicable diseases Seasonal diseases/epidemics/outbreaks Curative care Blindness/cataract
3.	Home visits	Health checkups Counselling
4.	Information, Education and Communication (IEC) activities among groups or at a community level	Maternal health Child health Family planning Nutrition Communicable diseases Non-communicable diseases Other health related Mobilisation Any other
5.	Health camps	No sub-category
6.	School health	IEC in schools Service delivery and counselling
7.	Adolescent health	Service delivery and counselling IEC for adolescents Any other
8.	Nutrition and health day (NHD)	IEC activity on NHD day Service delivery Any other
9.	Universal immunisation day	Administrative Service delivery Paperwork Any other
10.	Paperwork	Filling up registers Computer data entry Preparing reports Maintaining beneficiary records Any other
11.	Meetings with co-workers or village community	No sub-categories
12.	Meetings with seniors
13.	Trainings
14.	Administrative
15.	Personal work	Telephonic communication Non-telephonic communication Lunch Any other
16.	Non-health- but work-related activities	Related to health department Related to other departments External agency related
17.	Waiting	For patients For staff For others
18.	Any other

Each of the categories had further exhaustive list of activities which were to be selected based on field performance; however, time was measured only up till sub-categories