Table 2: Study variables by method.
Variable Description Target
Quasi-experimental assessment
Social demographics data This focused on the gender of the CHW, male or female Treatment 1&2, Comparison arm
Whether the CHW went through Secondary school or not
Whether the CHW over sees more or less than 90 households.
Knowledge and behavior questions Knowledge questions similar or identical to those asked during the MOTS quizzes Treatment 1&2, Comparison arm
Rate of community engagement Whether MOTS contributed to the improvement of community engagement by VHTs speaking about the module, the frequency of speaking about the module and how confident the CHW was while counselling households on the module for treatment and control arms of the study.
Attitude towards mobile phones as a medium of information during outbreaks Whether the CHWs thought that information given to them through the mobile phone was sufficient to aid them support outbreak response to the households Treatment 1&2, Comparison arm
Whether the CHWs would willingly be able to share information received through the mobile phone about outbreak response to the households
Whether the CHWs actually would trust outbreak response information through the mobile phone.
MOTS System Data
CHW MOTS Module participation A welcome message is sent to the CHW as an SMS, the CHW calls the toll-free number to have access to the Module. The CHW is then given access to the module starting with unit one. Treatment 1&2
Completion of the Module Each module is open for 4 weeks in which a CHW is supposed to complete all units therein. Therefore, a CHW who completes the module is one who does all units in the module by close of the 4th Week. Treatment 1&2
A CHW is considered in progress if they went beyond Unit one but did not manage to complete the final unit by close of the 4th week
A CHW is considered “not started” If by close of the 4th week they did not go beyond the first unit of the module.
MOTS quiz results The first and last units of the modules are pre-and post-test units. A CHW provides response by selecting the right response by, and then the right responses are counted and a percentage is generated at the pre-and post-test. An average score by all CHWs is then generated to get the average score. Treatment 1&2
A comparison of the pre-and post-test was done by module for treatment 1&2