Checklists
The Fidelity Checklist consists of 7 items intended to assess whether the facilitator uses techniques intended to encourage group dynamics and discussion. A total of 32 Fidelity Checklist Scales were completed by the champion trainers as they observed group ANC meetings among the intervention sites. The majority of the items were ranked as “Always” (177/224 responses), “Sometimes” (36/224 responses) with 11 missing responses. None of the responses were marked “Never”. The item that scored the lowest with the most “Sometimes” vs. “Always” was item 4 “Follows the steps as written in the Facilitators Guide” (