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Table 3 Examples of an audit trail used to move from participant phases to themes

From: Implementing without guidelines, learning at the coalface: a case study of health promoters in an era of community health workers in South Africa

Participant phases

Categorisation

Codes

Categories

Themes

1. My role is to assist the community in preventing diseases … (BP011HPP)

Disease prevention

Role of HP

Health promoters at PHC level

2. We network with other institutions, NGOs and stakeholders … (BP001SD)

Stakeholder engagement

Purpose of HP practice

3. Health promotion goes around in schools and crèches … (AP015FM)

Schools

Settings for HP

4. If there is a malaria outbreak, clinic stats show us that and we intervene …. (AP006SD)

Clinic stats

Prioritisation of HP activities

5. Aspects of what CHWs do is HP, they give health education …. (ND002)

CHWs vs. HPPs

Working as part of one team

CHWs and the WBOT rPHC strategy

6. If there is something new that we’ve learnt, my job is to train them [CHWs] (AP014HPP)

Train or capacitate

7. When they [WBOTs] encounter some challenges … we go and see what the problem is … (BP007HPP)

Collaboration

  1. CHW community health worker, HP health promotion, HPP health promotion practitioner, PHC primary healthcare, rPHC re-engineering of primary healthcare, WBOT Ward-Based Outreach Team