Table 1.
Themes and subthemes from quantitative and qualitative data analyses for 32 Saving Brains projects, and 19 key informant in-depth interviews regarding human resources and curricula content for early child development (ECD) programming
| Themes | Subthemes | |
| Human resources | 1. Characteristics/selection of worker | 1.1 Health versus other sector |
| 1.2 Integration with existing programmes | ||
| 1.3 Pre-existing government worker versus novel worker | ||
| 1.4 Professional versus lay worker | ||
| 1.5 Qualities and qualifications | ||
| 2. Inducement and retention | 2.1 Modalities of incentivisation | |
| 2.2 Impact on pre-existing workers | ||
| 3. Training and supervision | 3.1 Content of training | |
| 3.2 Flexibility versus fidelity | ||
| 3.3 Education theory | ||
| 3.4 Supportive relationships | ||
| Curricula content | 4. Content and components | 4.1 Defining critical components |
| 4.2 Formative work and adaptation | ||
| 4.3 Flexibility versus fidelity | ||
| 4.4 Behaviour change | ||
| 5. Delivery, duration and dosage | 5.1 Adapting delivery to local context | |
| 5.2 Intervention duration and dosage | ||
| 5.3 Retention of participants |