Measuring community engagement and trust in community health workers in Haiti, Malawi, and Rwanda: a cross-sectional study
Stephanie Armbruster, Stefanie A Joseph, Kobel Dubique, Erick Baganizi, Frank Gondwe, Nadege Belizaire, Maurice Junior Chery, Peterson Abnis Faure, Tumusime Musafiri, Benson Chabwera, Jean Claude Mugunga, Mary Clisbee, Dale A Barnhart, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Fabien Munyaneza · 2026
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Stephanie Armbruster and co-authors surveyed 1,920 people in Haiti, Malawi, and Rwanda about how much they trust their community health workers, the local agents who link villages to clinics. Their 2026 cross-sectional study ran from June to October 2023 in communities served by Partners In Health.
Contact varied sharply: about half of respondents in Haiti and Rwanda had not met their worker in six months, against just 5.8 percent in Malawi. Those with contact rated trust on a standard scale. The team tested whether matching the worker's sex, and how much time workers spend engaging the community, track with higher trust, questions managers can actually act on.
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| CREATOR | Stephanie Armbruster, Stefanie A Joseph, Kobel Dubique, Erick Baganizi, Frank Gondwe, Nadege Belizaire, Maurice Junior Chery, Peterson Abnis Faure, Tumusime Musafiri, Benson Chabwera, Jean Claude Mugunga, Mary Clisbee, Dale A Barnhart, Bethany Hedt-Gauthier, Fabien Munyaneza |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38266 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |