Table 2.

Summary of tuberculosis-affected households’ qualitative feedback. Feedback focused on positive aspects, aspects to improve on and suggested improvements of the social and economic elements of the intervention

Intervention activity	Positive	Aspect to improve on	Suggested improvement
Social	Improved information and education Enhanced emotional and mutual support Increased self-confidence and esteem Motivating	Health-post, home visits, TB workshops and TB clubs too infrequent Lack of forewarning and difficulty coordinating times of social activities Workshops and clubs could be more dynamic	Increase health-post visits to at least weekly and home visits, TB workshops and clubs to twice a month Earlier formal invitation to activities followed up by reminder phone call or text Include better audiovisuals: especially music and videos (including patient testimonies)
Economic	Enabled participants to buy better food and cover travel costs to health-post for directly observed therapy or contact screening Cash transfers were encouraging and motivating	Transfers not punctual, too infrequent and not enough Complications of bank transfers included difficulty withdrawing cash, wasted visits when cash was not yet deposited and hidden bank charges	Increase cash transfer amounts, allow maximum 3-day wait to arrive and provide cash transfers twice a month Inform household when cash transfers have arrived Allow participants to save up cash transfers (eg have all transferred at one time)

TB = tuberculosis