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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Res Nurs Health. 2022 Feb 20;45(3):380–389. doi: 10.1002/nur.22220

Table 1.

Community Health Worker Characteristics

Variable Mean, Median, Mode Range
Age Mean: 41.7, Median: 43 Mode: 43 25 – 58
Highest Education Mean: Grade 10 Grade 5 – Diploma (obtained post graduating high school)
Male/female distribution Two CHWs were male and 16 were female
Marital status 7 - married, 10 - single, 1 – widowed
Children 2.4 0 – 6
Year Started as CHW Median: 2009 1999 – 2018
Number of CHWs in each starting year increment 1999-2003 3
2004-2009 10
2010-2015 0
2015-2018 5

Note: CHWs who started in 2018 had worked for approximately 10 months prior to data collection.