Data Collection Methods for the Qualitative Study
| Category | Details | Themes Explored |
|---|---|---|
| In-depth interviews (N=37) | ||
| Senior staff | Program head (discussion), implementation management (n=3), health camp doctor (n=1) | General experiences with the program, its conceptualization and its components, changes in the program, perceived achievements and challenges, working in partnerships, and sustainability under different models of implementation. Health camp doctor: implementation of the camp, perceived benefits of the camp, challenges, and role of health camps in the program. |
| Field team | SNEHA frontline health workers (n=6), SNEHA program officers (n=3) | Sharing typical work-week activities and roles played, experiences, perceived achievements and challenges faced, and case illustrations. |
| Community | Total interviews: 24 Maximum diversity sample including mothers of severely wasted, moderately wasted, non-wasted, pregnant women; by age (0–6 years and above)/gender/religion; purposively sampled some complicated cases) | Stories of interaction and familiarity with the program, perspectives (positive and negative) on various activities, suggestions for the program. |
| Focus group discussions (N=3) | ||
| Field team (SNEHA frontline health workers) | 3 focus group discussions, with 6 SNEHA frontline health workers per group | Protocols, time allocation to different activities, interaction with the community, program officers, and senior management. |
| Observations (N=12 sessions) | ||
| Home visits by SNEHA frontline health workers | Over 2-week period: 8 visits, approximately 20 minutes each | General processes, nuances of interaction with the community, process through which the SNEHA frontline health workers communicate information. |
| Growth monitoring | Over 2-week period: 4 sessions, half a day each | Growth monitoring process in the Anganwadi centers, community mobilization, and management of crowd during weighing and taking of measurements. |
| Site visit | NRRC and urban health post, 1-time observation | Crowd, physical infrastructure, placement of SNEHA staff at the NRRC, general familiarity of the field staff with the place. |
| Descriptive monitoring data and case stories | ||
| Descriptive monitoring data | Already exists in the program | Size and coverage of the program—number of beneficiaries, number of children monitored, number of home visits recorded. |
| Case stories | Already existed in the program to document successful cases to promote best practices. About 140 stories were recorded in 2015; we selected 46 diverse cases, translated them into English, and analyzed them. | Interaction of the field team with caregivers, process of identification of malnutrition, intervention with the family. |
Abbreviation: SNEHA, Society for Nutrition, Education and Health Action.