Health Worker Pandemic Capacity Self-Assessment in Three Humanitarian Settings

129 primary healthcare and community health workers in Honduras, Syria, and South Sudan were surveyed in March-April 2024. The study, authored by Maryda E. Vallet, measured the retention of perceived COVID-19 training benefits across knowledge, skills, and confidence using retrospective self-assessment on five-point Likert scales.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in self-reported health worker knowledge, skills, and confidence based on retrospective pre-training, post-training, and present status ratings.
• Assess the sustainability of training benefits in humanitarian settings based on data collected an average of three years after training.
• Investigate factors affecting capacity retention based on reported low access to ongoing training, resources, and support.
• Compare preparedness levels across different humanitarian contexts based on data from Honduras, Syria, and South Sudan.

Strengths

• Data covers 129 health workers across three distinct humanitarian settings.
• Includes self-reported ratings across three time points (pre-training, post-training, present) on five-point Likert scales.
• Results show statistically significant increases and sustained capacities, with 84.3% of workers reporting feeling prepared.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Study design limitations mean results cannot be attributed solely to trainings or generalized to all health workers in these countries.

Provenance

Source

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Collection Method

Cross-sectional, retrospective self-assessment survey.

Time Range

Survey conducted March-April 2024, with retrospective recall for earlier time points.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 17:45-36; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Honduras, Syria, South Sudan