Nepal's Female Community Health Volunteers (FCHVs) program started in 1988. In the early years of program initiation, FCHVs were assigned to promote and distribute the family planning commodities such as condoms and pills. Over past three decades, FCHVs' roles have gradually expanded beyond family planning program and especially are focused on maternal and child health services at a large scale...

A randomized controlled trial evaluated the effect of telephone-based peer support (mother-to-mother) on preventing postpartum depression among high-risk mothers. This paper reports volunteers' perceptions, which showed that peer support is an effective preventative intervention. Two-hundred and five (205) volunteers were recruited and trained to provide peer support to 349 mothers randomized t...

Being strategic and intentional in the management of volunteers is increasingly important to tackle volunteer retention improve other outcomes. Drawing on human resource (SHRM), this inductive study utilizes qualitative data from interviews explore how a large youth organization perceive HR practices training recognition. Volunteer accounts are supplemented with focus group front-line staff cap...

Posbindu is a form of public participation to conduct early detection and monitoring of risk factors for non-communicable diseases(NCD), and where it was carried out in as an integrated manner, routine and periodic event. This paper aims to investigates the needs and problems on Posbindu Program based on community health volunteers(CHVs) perspective. This study used descriptive qualitative meth...

Visual disability, particularly in children, can lead to a high mortality, economic loss and burden to the individual, family, community and the nation as a whole (Holden 2007; Roberts, Hiratsuka et al. 2010). Approximately 30,240 children are estimated to be blind in Nepal (Apex Body for Eye Health, Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal, 2011). One of the reasons of this high number might b...

BACKGROUND Program effectiveness is influenced by the degree and quality of implementation, thus requiring careful examination of delivery processes and how the program is or is not being implemented as intended. Implementation fidelity is defined by adherence to intervention design, exposure or dose, quality of delivery, and participant responsiveness. As part of the process evaluation (PE) of...

OBJECTIVE Authors performed a neuropsychological determination of which individuals in a group of community-dwelling, healthy elderly volunteers would develop cognitive decline. METHODS A group of 155 volunteers reporting good memory and thinking participated in a prospective study over 4 years. Authors monitored cognitive functioning and incidence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)/Alzheimer...

The Community Stroke Study was designed to raise the quality of life and improve the long-term rehabilitation outcomes of neurologically impaired stroke patients. This threeyear randomized clinical trial is based on a program that was developed by Valerie Eaton Griffith in Great Britain to help patients recover from stroke through the efforts of community volunteers(I-5). Although her program h...

INTRODUCTION The recruitment of community health volunteers to support the delivery of health programmes is a well-established approach in many countries, particularly where health services are not readily available. However, studies on management of volunteers are scarce and current research on human resource management of volunteers faces methodological challenges. This paper presents the pro...