Community Health Workers

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Like a doctor, like a brother": Achieving competence amongst lay health workers delivering community-based rehabilitation for people with schizophrenia in Ethiopia. 
  • 'I have a lot of faith in her': Value of community health workers in addressing family planning in rural Ghana. 
  • A Community-Based Intervention for Managing Hypertension in Rural South Asia. 
  • A Community-Engaged Research Approach to Improve Mental Health Among Latina Immigrants: ALMA Photovoice. 
  • A Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness Study of a Community Health Worker-Delivered Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Disease Risk in a Rural, Underserved Non-Hispanic Black Population: The CHANGE Study. 
  • A community health worker delivered intervention to address hypertension among adults engaged in HIV care in northern Tanzania: Outcomes from a pilot feasibility study. 
  • A mobile health technology platform for quality assurance and quality improvement of malaria diagnosis by community health workers. 
  • A participatory action research pilot study of urban health disparities using rapid assessment response and evaluation. 
  • A randomized longitudinal factorial design to assess malaria vector control and disease management interventions in rural Tanzania. 
  • Acceptability of a Community Health Worker Program to Link High-Risk People in Jail to HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis. 
  • Access to CKD Care in Rural Communities of India: a qualitative study exploring the barriers and potential facilitators. 
  • Assessing the Influence of Community Health Worker Support on Early Antiretroviral Therapy Adherence, Anticipated Stigma, and Mental Health Among People Living with HIV in Tanzania. 
  • Barriers and Facilitators of Engaging Community Health Workers in Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Prevention and Control in China: A Systematic Review (2006⁻2016). 
  • Budget impact and cost-effectiveness analyses of the COBRA-BPS multicomponent hypertension management programme in rural communities in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. 
  • Chronic disease stigma, skepticism of the health system, and socio-economic fragility: Qualitative assessment of factors impacting receptiveness to group medical visits and microfinance for non-communicable disease care in rural Kenya. 
  • Clinical Trial Protocol for a Randomized Trial of Community Health Worker-led Decision Coaching to Promote Shared Decision-making on Prostate Cancer Screening Among Black Male Patients and Their Providers. 
  • Community Health Workers Improve Linkage to Hypertension Care in Western Kenya. 
  • Community Health Workers as Support for Sickle Cell Care. 
  • Community Health Workers: Addressing Client Objectives Among Frequent Emergency Department Users. 
  • Community based lifestyle intervention for blood pressure reduction in children and young adults in developing country: cluster randomised controlled trial. 
  • Cost-effectiveness of community-based strategies for blood pressure control in a low-income developing country: findings from a cluster-randomized, factorial-controlled trial. 
  • Cultural competence and perceptions of community health workers' effectiveness for reducing health care disparities. 
  • Culture, status and context in community health worker pay: pitfalls and opportunities for policy research. A commentary on Glenton et al. (2010). 
  • Diagnostic methods to determine microbiology of postpartum endometritis in South Asia: laboratory methods protocol used in the Postpartum Sepsis Study: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Does improving appropriate use of malaria medicines change population beliefs in testing and treatment? Evidence from a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Engaging outreach workers in the development of a farmworker health research agenda. 
  • Engaging village health workers in non-communicable disease (NCD) prevention and control in Vietnam: A qualitative study. 
  • Evaluating the Feasibility and Acceptability of a Mobile Health-Based Female Community Health Volunteer Program for Hypertension Control in Rural Nepal: Cross-Sectional Study. 
  • Evaluation of malaria rapid diagnostic test (RDT) use by community health workers: a longitudinal study in western Kenya. 
  • Financial burden, distress, and toxicity in cardiovascular disease. 
  • From evidence to practice: using the RE-AIM framework to adapt the REACHII caregiver intervention to the community. 
  • Health services and the family planning component. 
  • Hearing care across the life course provided in the community. 
  • Home-visiting intervention to improve child care among American Indian adolescent mothers: a randomized trial. 
  • Human-centered design as a guide to intervention planning for non-communicable diseases: the BIGPIC study from Western Kenya. 
  • Hypertension Care Coordination and Feasibility of Involving Female Community Health Volunteers in Hypertension Management in Kavre District, Nepal: A Qualitative Study. 
  • Improving rational use of ACTs through diagnosis-dependent subsidies: Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in western Kenya. 
  • Improving urban African Americans' blood pressure control through multi-level interventions in the Achieving Blood Pressure Control Together (ACT) study: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Innovative public-private partnership to target subsidised antimalarials: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate a community intervention in Western Kenya. 
  • Lessons learned through piloting a community-based SMS referral system for common mental health disorders used by female community health volunteers in rural Nepal. 
  • Motivation and satisfaction among community health workers administering rapid diagnostic tests for malaria in Western Kenya. 
  • Novel Service Delivery Approach to Address Reproductive Health Disparities within Immigrant Latino Communities in Geographic Hot Spots: An Implementation Study. 
  • Optimizing linkage and retention to hypertension care in rural Kenya (LARK hypertension study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Participatory mapping in low-resource settings: Three novel methods used to engage Kenyan youth and other community members in community-based HIV prevention research. 
  • Patient perspectives on the helpfulness of a community health worker program for HIV care engagement in Tanzania. 
  • Physically, mentally disabled teens require special contraceptive care. 
  • Population impact of a high cardiovascular risk management program delivered by village doctors in rural China: design and rationale of a large, cluster-randomized controlled trial. 
  • Psychological treatments delivered by community health workers in low-resource government health systems: effectiveness of group interpersonal psychotherapy for caregivers of children affected by nodding syndrome in Uganda. 
  • Randomized trial of community health worker-led decision coaching to promote shared decision-making for prostate cancer screening among Black male patients and their providers. 
  • Reducing cardiovascular disease in a rural community. 
  • System-integrated technology-enabled model of care to improve the health of stroke patients in rural China: protocol for SINEMA-a cluster-randomized controlled trial. 
  • The Role of Community Health Workers in HIV Care Engagement: A Qualitative Study of Stakeholder Perspectives in Tanzania. 
  • The development and evaluation of a community-based clinical diagnosis tool and treatment regimen for postpartum sepsis in Bangladesh and Pakistan. 
  • The effectiveness of two community-based weight loss strategies among obese, low-income US Latinos. 
  • The relative importance of material and non-material incentives for community health workers: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Western Kenya. 
  • Use of malaria RDTs in various health contexts across sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review.