Chapter 5: Interview guide, Jalalabad

Need: tape recorder, translator, driver

1. Net Purchasers (if possible one of each). Reasons for purchasing (how able). a) non-landowner

b) husband in Pakistan

2. Net Non-purchasers (at least one of each). Reasons for not purchasing (unwilling, or willing

but can’t)

a) widow

b) husband in Pakistan c) husband disabled

3. Salespeople - who purchases, how? 4. Clinic sales staff - Who are they selling to? 1. Net Purchasers

Why did you decide to buy bednets?

How often do you use the bednets you purchased? How helpful do you consider them?

Would you like to buy more if you could? If yes, what is currently stopping you?

Do you think that bednets can protect your family’s health? Why or why not?

What do you think is the more important problem for your family, mosquito bites or malaria? When someone in your family is sick, what do you do?

What are the most significant health problems your family faces? How significant a problem is malaria for you and your family? Who has had malaria in your household in the past year? Was this before or after you purchased bednets? If after, where they sleeping regularly under a net? What causes malaria?

What are the ways that you protect your family from malaria? What is your main occupation/source of income?

Do you have other income sources? If so, what are they?

*From whom did you buy your nets (clinic, shop, HNI team, etc)

What was the selling procedure?

Did everyone get a chance to buy nets that wanted one? How did the sellers choose whom to sell to?

Was there any favouritism? Who got the nets?

Where did you learn about the programme? Do you listen to radio?

Did you learn anything about it from radio?

What can you remember about malaria or nets from the radio programme? Health messages?

Story line?

How would you improve the sales system?

Did you receive any health messages from sellers? Can you remember them?

Did you retreat your nets? If not, why not?

Any problems with the nets or the programme?

How would you improve the programme/retreatment programme?

2. Net Non-purchasers

When someone in your family is sick, what do you do?

What are the most significant health problems your family faces?

Do you consider malaria to be a significant problem for you and your family? Who has had malaria in your household in the past year?

What causes malaria?

How do you protect your family from malaria?

*If you were able to purchase malaria protection for your family, would you do so? *What would you like to purchase and why?

Are mosquitoes a problem for your family?

How do you protect yourselves against biting insects? Do you think bednets are useful? In what way? What is your main occupation/source of income? Do you have other income sources?

If so, what are they?

3. Salesmen

How many bednets have you sold in the past month? Who usually buys bednets (what kind of people)?

What do you think are the main reasons people buy bednets?

What do you think about the prices that are being charged for bednets? Do you own any bednets?

What do you think is the best reason to have a bednet?

Do you think that bednets help in malaria prevention? Why / why not?

Do you think it makes a significant difference to the bednet if it has been treated with insecticide? Why/ why not?

What sorts of information if any do you give people when they buy bednets? How many people do you think retreat their nets regularly?

Do you let people purchase items from your store on credit? If so, who and what type of items?

Would someone be able to purchase a bednet on credit?

4. Clinic sales staff

How many bednets have you sold in the past month? Who do you usually sell bednets to?

What do you think are the main reasons people buy bednets?

What do you think about the prices that are being charged for bednets? Do you own any bednets?

What do you think is the best reason to have a bednet?

Do you think that bednets help significantly in malaria prevention? Why / why not? Are there more effective or cheaper ways to prevent malaria?

What are the advantages/disadvantages of bednets?

How much information/explanation do you usually give when someone comes to buy a net? How many people do you think retreat their nets regularly?

Do you think people prefer to buy a net from the clinic or from a private shop? Why/why not? What do you tell buyers of nets?

What are the health messages? What are the essential messages? How do you deliver these messages?

Did you receive instructions about how to implement net sales? From whom?

When (what year)? Who do you sell nets to?

Do you always have enough nets to satisfy demand?

How do you prioritise net sales-who is included, who is left out? How do you retreat nets-how do you notify people?

When-which month?

Do you have enough insecticide to satisfy demand?

What comments/ideas do you have about treatment and net sales? Health Ed:

Where did you learn about the net programme? What messages where given to you?

Have you seen this health education material before? Was it explained to you?

Can you understand what is being explained in the leaflets? Can you explain the leaflets to me?