TABLE 3.

Key Performance Indicator and Community Scorecard Scores of the Study Assessing the Effects of a Social Accountability Approach on Improving Health System Performance in Maternal and Child Health Services in 2 Regional States in Ethiopia, October 2018 to September 2019a

BaselineMidtermEndline
SNNPAmharaSNNPAmharaSNNPAmhara
Social accountability
Compassionate, respectful, and caring health work force3.78±0.503.07±0.723.56±0.533.41±0.683.77±0.453.66±0.60
Patient waiting time3.31±0.972.95±0.803.39±0.603.25±0.723.61±0.573.47±0.77
Availability of services, biomedical equipment, and pharmaceutical supplies3.40±0.612.92±0.683.74±0.453.15±0.703.83±0.523.40±0.67
Health facility infrastructure3.44±0.702.86±0.743.69±0.533.15±0.823.71±0.573.47±0.71
Ambulance service and management3.11±0.552.57±0.813.29±0.513.06±0.813.58±0.483.14±0.80
Clean and safe health facility3.53±0.503.28±0.883.67±0.793.50±0.783.84±0.783.75±0.68
Overall summary of community scorecard68.7±6.658.9±12.871.2±5.865.2±11.574.4±6.469.7±10.5
60.8%±12.5%66.3%±10.8%70.6%±10.0%
Key performance indicators
Contraceptive acceptance rate80.7±22.085.2±28.482.7±25.093.4±22.088.9±22.395.1±28.7
Syphilis screening among antenatal care clients82.9±17.758.6±37.384.2±17.567.4±36.587.8±22.678.4±43.1
Skilled delivery service coverage64.7±23.440.6±21.566.3±23.345.0±22.066.9±23.554.9±28.0
Postnatal service coverage76.1±23.352.7±25.988.6±18.656.6±24.084.5±23.167.4±31.4
Fully immunization coverage98.2±15.278.5±25.994.3±7.876.8±18.797.7±14.783.0±20.4
Growth monitoring coverage84.3±29.613.9±7.187.9±25.414.5±8.592.8±18.817.0±10.9
Proportion of available essential or tracer drugs63.2±16.751.3±32.072.5±14.363.3±24.876.5±13.569.6±20.1
Proportion of available diagnostic services74.2±20.437.0±37.783.2±17.050.4±35.886.5±12.951.0±36.2
Proportion of clean and safe health facility standards met77.0±18.249.4±33.880.9±15.163.1±26.185.0±11.070.4±21.8
Waiting time/ patient flow/responsiveness health center–health post linkage54.8±25.131.7±30.156.9±26.445.1±30.569.3±27.150.0±29.2
Overall key performance indicators summary score75.6±19.149.9±15.179.7±7.557.6±13.183.6±7.163.7±13.2
75.6%±9.1%79.7%±7.5%80.9%±8.7%
  • Abbreviation: SNNP, Southern, Nations, Nationalities and Peoples.

  • a Average community scorecard and key performance indicators with standard deviation.