How to investigate levels of Adherence to antiretroviral ... - INRUD

How to Investigate Adherence to Antiretroviral Treatment:
An Indicator-Based Approach
It is a requirement that data entry is completed twice for each form; as the user enters data a
second time, it is verified against the first entry and discrepancies are highlighted and can be
amended by the user.
Before data are collected it is possible to customize the suite to suit the facilities relevant to
your work.
Before data are collected you may print the relevant empty forms to use in the data capture
exercise.
At the end of the data entry the records entered are consolidated and summarized for
reporting purposes.
Customization
The first thing you will need to do is to customize the forms you are about to use. This
includes:
a) Formulating and entering the three medicine lists of up to 10 each of your country’s
first line adult and paediatric ARVs and key medicines used for opportunistic
infections.
b) Adding the list of types of health facilities and hospitals relevant to your survey.
c) Adding the names of regions of your country or area from which you sampled.
d) The types of facility management in your area, such as government, NGO, faithbased,
etc.
e) The different sources of supplies of ARVs, such as government, PEPFAR, the Global
Fund, etc.
f) Location names. The default values are urban and rural, but could be whatever is
suitable for your area or country.
To customize your form, find the file named: ‘Questionnaires.xlt’ in your list of objects and
using your mouse right click on the file; select the option to open it.
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