Supporting and retaining Village Health Teams: an assessment of a community health worker program in two Ugandan districts

Table 1 Descriptive statistics of VHT respondents

VHT Demographics	N	(%)
VHT Age
18–29	12	9
30–39	33	25
40–49	43	32
50–59	35	26
≥ 60	10	8
VHT Gender
Female	85	63
Male	49	37
VHT District
Wakiso	46	34
Mukono	88	66
VHT Status	Mean	Median	IQR
Years as a VHT	4.22	4	2.5
Households monitoring^a	94.87	40	53
Typical hours per week on VHT activities^b	10.41	6.75	8.5

IQR inter-quartile range
^aEach VHT is assigned a cohort of households to monitor for illnesses, provide necessary referrals, and advise on issues of household sanitation and hygiene
^bAs VHTs have other occupations in addition to this volunteer work, respondents were asked to estimate the number of hours spent on VHT activities in a typical week. This is an unverified estimate

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