Table 1

Table 2

Table 1

Participants’ Assessment Description	Participant number	Comment
Positive	1	Love being a CHW
Positive	2	Love giving to community I’ve
(These study participants made	3	learned a lot Rewarding
specific comments that	4	Makes me feel good
suggested their experience as a	5	It’s fruitful
HIVCHW was favorable.)	6	Enriching and rewarding
	9
	10	Good
	12	Good
	13	Fulfilled
	15	Love it
Negative	14	Felt good about being a
(This study participant comment implicitly indicated that the experience was negative.)		CHW It was a negative experience
Neither	7	90
(These study participants did not comment either way, positive or negative)	8 11	Long journey with ups and downs

Table 1: Participants’ Assessment Description

Table 2

Codes	# of study participants that code		Negative impact		Positive impact
Stress	7		7		0
Burnout	5		5		0
Tired	6		6		0
Exhausted	1		1		0
Sick	3		3		0
Forgetful	2		2		0
Not concentrating	1		1		0
Pain	1		1		0
Worry	2		2		0
Lose sleep	3		3		0
Anxiety	1		1		0
Do not eat	3		1		0
Irritated	1		1		0
Frustrated	2		2		0
Neglect	4		4		0
Draining	2		2		0
Care for their	5		5		0
clients’ first
Medical adherent	2		1		1
Trauma	1		1		0
Eating healthy	2		1		1
Guilt	1		1		0
Overwhelmed	3		3		0
Putting clients’ first	4		4		0
Transference	2		2		0
Hurt	1		1		0

Table 2: Listing of Codes Developed From Participant Comments