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APPENDIX 3: FOCUS GROUP GUIDE FOR VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS
MAIN QUESTION FOLLOW UP QUESTION PROBE QUESTIONS
1. How many patients do you
have?
2. Could you please name all
the things that you use
when caring for the patients
in order of their
importance?
3. May you please explain how
you care for the patients in
the community?
4. What challenges do you face
regarding infection control practices
in the community?
• How often do you visit
them?
• Who takes care of the
patient during the days that
you do not go?
• Do you have HBC kits?
• What do they contain?
• How do you practice
hygiene?
• What you are supposed to
do step by step when you
reach your patients
premises?
• How do you use personal
protective equipment
• What were you taught
about waste disposal
• How do you dispose of the
things that you use like the
gloves, cotton wool,
bandages, dippers,
• How enough are the
materials that you use?
• Name those that are not
enough? Name those that
you feel must be enough?
• How do families and
patients react when you
want to use PPE like gloves
and masks?
• Are there situations when
there is no water in the
community for doing your
work effectively?
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• These family members how
do they have the knowledge
on caring for the patients?
• Who supplies them?
• How often are they
supplied?
• E.g., washing of hands,
opening windows, changing
linen, washing of bedings,
dippers, cleaning sores
&rash, cleaning the
surrounding at you patient’s
house?
• E.g. using barriers such as
gloves, aprons, masks
• If you burn, how do you do
it? Where? How often do
you do so? What happens
on the days that you don’t
go who does it?
• If you put in black plastics
for garbage collectors to
collect. How often are they
collected? What happens if
they are not collected?
• If you bury, where, and how
often do you do this? What
happens the days when you
don’t visit the patients?
• How adequate are the kits
to everyone?
• What do you use when you
don’t have?
• If you buy where does the
money come from? And
how adequate is this
money?
• How do you deal with those
that react like that to you?
• If so how do you deal with
such situations?