ABSTRACT
This research was a quasi-experimental research aimed to evaluate the effect of an empowerment model for supervision capacity building. Participants included 77 and 68 district public health supervisors for the intervention and comparison groups, respectively. The empowerment intervention was based on the Capacity Development Model of David McClelland and Empowerment Model of Kanter. McClelland’s model consists of three perspectives: knowledge, capacity, and skill. Kanter’s model consists of resource supply, supporting, information and opportunity. Knowledge, capacity, skills and perception in supervising were assessed an using self-developed questionnaire. Within- and between-group comparisons were performed using paired t-test and independent sample t-test. The results revealed that there was no difference in the proportion of male gender, age distribution, education levels, work experience and supervising experience between the intervention and comparison groups. Knowledge, capacity, skills and perception in supervision among the intervention group significantly increased after the empowerment intervention, compared with the comparison group at of level.
(p < .05)
Key words: empowerment model for supervision capacity building.