Assessment of Family Planning and Immunization Service Integration in Malawi

Completed

• Conditions: Contraception; Contraceptive Usage; Infant, Newborn, Diseases; Contraception Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Family planning and infant immunization service integration

• Registration Number: NCT03404284
• Lead Sponsor: Jhpiego

Brief Summary

This is a mixed methods process evaluation of a programmatic intervention to integrate family planning and immunization services at health facilities and through outreach services in Dowa and Ntchisi districts of Malawi. The study involved qualitative methods (in depth interviews and focus group discussions with service providers, mothers and fathers of infants \<1 year, and supervisors and program managers) as well as secondary analysis of service statistics for family planning and immunization services and of supervision reports.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-06
• Primary Completion: 2017-09
• Study Completion: 2017-09
• Status Verified: 2018-01
• Study First Submitted: 2018-01-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-01-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-01-11
• Study First Posted: 2018-01-19
• Last Update Posted: 2018-01-19

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 43

Inclusion Criteria

• All health facilities and associated outreach sites in Ntchisi and Dowa districts implementing the integrated approach with support from the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival Program

Exclusion Criteria

• All health facilities and associated outreach sites not implementing the integrated approach with support from the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival Program

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Intervention facilities	Family planning and infant immunization service integration	Includes 43 health facilities and their associated outreach sites

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Penta 1 doses administered	June 2016 through September 2017 (we also collected pre-intervention data from January to May 2016)
Number of modern family planning users	June 2016 through September 2017 (we also collected pre-intervention data from January to May 2016)
Number of Penta 3 doses administered	June 2016 through September 2017 (we also collected pre-intervention data from January to May 2016)