Behavioural Surveillance Surveys - The Wisdom of Whores

EXAMPLE OF SUPERVISORS’
AND INTERVIEWERS’
GUIDELINES FOR BSS
This document contains the Supervisors’
and Interviewers’ guidelines for the Zambia
HIV/AIDS/STD Behavioral Surveillance Surveys
(BSS) 2000. Please note that although most
of the questions correspond to the BSS core
questionnaire, a few will not. This set of
guidelines was included to illustrate how
a similar set of guidelines can be developed
for any BSS.
The target group questionnaires in this
document do not represent the final
instruments for the BSS and should never be
used as is without further modification.
The questionnaires will be pre-tested during
the training for adaptation to local context
and then be finalized and translated to local
languages before data collection begins.
The Supervisors’ Guidelines are divided in
two main sections. Part A provides general
team leading procedures and Part B provides
guidelines for field control and editing checks.
The Interviewers’ Guidelines are divided
into four sections. Part A - covers general
interviewing guidelines, Part B provides a
description of the questionnaire format and
instructions for recording answers to the
various types of questions contained in the
questionnaire, Part C reviews the questionnaires
in detail with focus on the administration
of the questions and Part D outlines the
consistency checks.
Part A: General Team Leading
Procedures
Introduction and Objectives
As a Supervisor you are very important in
ensuring the highest quality of data collection
on people’s knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and
practices regarding HIV/AIDS and other STDs
is obtained.
The key objectives of the behavioural
surveillance survey are to :
• Help establish a monitoring system that will
track behavioral trend data for high risk
and vulnerable target groups, which influence
the epidemic in Zambia.
• Provide information on behavioral trends
of key target groups in some of the same
catchment areas where voluntary counseling
and testing is being offered.
• Provide information to help guide program
planning
• Provide evidence of the relative success of
the combination of HIV prevention efforts
taking place in selected sites.
• Obtain data in a standardized format,
which will enable comparison with other
behavioral surveillance studies carried out
in other countries.
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