A Self-Management Training Intervention: Perceptions and Practices of Community Health Workers in South Africa

Abstract

Background. While community health workers (CHWs) are increasingly being used as a strategy for increasing health care access, particularly in rural communities, interventions are needed to improve their skill sets in inspiring health behavior change, both for themselves and among their community clients. Self-management (SM) education interventions have shown to improve health behaviors and wellbeing. Purpose.