Team feedback on consistency of intervention delivery and facilitator training
The facilitator was consistent in delivering intervention content material, scoring “yes” in areas such as encouraging participants to ask questions, assessing participants’ current HIV knowledge, clearly presenting information regarding HIV and ART, and summarizing the sessions. The faciliator received maximum scores in skillfully helping participants to think through their decision-making skills, using reflective listening, encouraging question-asking and interaction among participants, and using open-ended questions. Additional support was provided to the facilitator to enhance her comfort with the material through training sessions with a local intervention specialist as well as practice sessions with colleagues. In addition, some activities were slightly modified in order to make the intervention easier to deliver within the 90-minute session. For example, the body mapping exercise was changed such that rather than each participant doing their own individual drawing to share with the group, the participants did a shared “body map” drawing together.