Acceptability, Comprehensibility and Reported Influence - BRAC ...

Improving health consciousness
According to different types of interviews with the respondents there is a reported
change regarding the accessing of health facilities. People have become more
sensitized about danger signs in delivery. People now know different health-related
problems, what causes them and their remedies. They also know what to do, where
to go for proper treatment, and they were practicing it. They did not even depend on
CHWs now; they would go to the health centres by themselves. Several respondents
cited that they called SS first then the village doctors in case of danger during
pregnancy and delivery. A father of a child under one year said,
“If we need any kind of treatment we would like to go Shishu Mongal
(MCWC). For diarrhea and fever we like to go to the SS. If not cured, we
prefer the village doctor because he is accessible to us.”
Another woman stated,
“Before if any problem persists, we just sit in the house and do nothing,
nowadays if we face any problem, we go to shebikas and whenever the
problem is serious we would go to hospital.”
Taking right decision by mutual understanding
During the KIIs with the women it was found that the messages had some sort of
influences on community member’s attitude that leads them to make health
promoting decisions. A lactating mother went to enjoy the street theatre with her
husband. After the end of the show, her husband told her about the importance of
the healthcare,
“Let’s drop the mistakes which we made before, the mistake which has
occurred during our marriage, just let bygone be bygones. We watched,
heard, and whatever learnt we will implement. We will not repeat the same
mistakes in the case of our child.”
Message application in personal life by health workers
Health workers reported that they follow these messages in their own life for their
own sake. They believe that they should practice these first before disseminating
those messages and give advice to others to practice, otherwise they would not
listen to and practice. One SK stated,
“When we started giving de worming tablets to pregnant women there was
confusion about its safety among women. At that time I was pregnant too
and I took the tablet to prove and assure them that it was safe.”
22 RED Working Paper No. 21