Utilizing All Health System Contacts to Offer Postpartum Family Planning (PPFP) to Pregnant Women and Women Within Twelve Months Postpartum in Ethiopia
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- Jhpiego
- 入组人数
- 776
- 试验地点
- 6
- 主要终点
- PPFP uptake
研究概览
简要总结
This study is investigating whether use of postpartum family planning (PPFP) increases if messages on PPFP and, if desired, PPFP services are integrated into as many contacts as possible between women/couples and the health system during pregnancy and the first year after birth. Health system contacts may be at health facilities (including antenatal, labor and delivery, postnatal, and child immunization visits) or, with Ethiopia's Health Extension Program, at households or health posts in the community.
详细描述
This implementation research study used a quasi-experimental, mixed method design with two arms. Two districts in Arsi Zone in Ethiopia's Oromia Region (Hitosa and Lode Hitosa) were selected for the study. In each district, one primary health care unit (PHCU) - a public health center and its satellite health posts - was randomly assigned to the intervention arm and one to the comparison arm.
PPFP counseling, services, and documentation were strengthened through training and supervision at health centers in both intervention and comparison PHCUs, consistent with Government of Ethiopia policies and guidelines. Only the intervention arm received the community-based intervention. The community-based intervention involved training Health Extension Workers (HEWs) who staff health posts, make outreach home visits, and support volunteers under the government's Development Army. HEWs were trained on PPFP with a refresher on implant insertion. The community invention also involved giving tools to HEWs and volunteers to help them track women's PPFP preferences and pregnancy risk.
The study objectives are to:
- Assess the effect of systematically integrating PPFP messages into contacts with the health system on uptake of PPFP through 12 months postpartum using a 'dose-response' analysis based on the number of contacts
- Estimate the added effect of the community-based intervention by comparing uptake of PPFP through 12 months postpartum in intervention and comparison sites
- Explore the acceptability and feasibility of tracking PPFP and reviewing data at health centers and HEWs and volunteers using record keeping and review processes to track women's decision-making and contraceptive use from pregnancy through 12 months postpartum
- Explore factors influencing women's/couples' adoption of PPFP during the first 12 months postpartum.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Pregnant at time of enrollment
- •Willing to give informed consent
- •Provider interviews
- •Providers providing PPFP messages or services in study area
- •Willing to give informed consent
排除标准
- •Not pregnant at time of enrollment
- •Living outside study area
- •Provider interviews
- •Not working in antenatal, labor & delivery, postnatal, or immunization care
研究组 & 干预措施
Intervention
Health centers provide PPFP counseling and services, implementing current Government of Ethiopia policy and standard of care (including still experimental screening and intra-facility referrals of women bringing infants for immunization). Also, health centers conduct data reviews of PPFP counseling, intra-facility referrals and uptake data. At community level, HEWs provide PPFP counseling and services throughout continuum of care, volunteers (Development Army) promote PPFP, and HEWs and volunteers track PPFP method choice and uptake.
干预措施: Health centers provide PPFP counseling and services (Behavioral)
Intervention
Health centers provide PPFP counseling and services, implementing current Government of Ethiopia policy and standard of care (including still experimental screening and intra-facility referrals of women bringing infants for immunization). Also, health centers conduct data reviews of PPFP counseling, intra-facility referrals and uptake data. At community level, HEWs provide PPFP counseling and services throughout continuum of care, volunteers (Development Army) promote PPFP, and HEWs and volunteers track PPFP method choice and uptake.
干预措施: HEWs provide PPFP counseling and services (Behavioral)
Intervention
Health centers provide PPFP counseling and services, implementing current Government of Ethiopia policy and standard of care (including still experimental screening and intra-facility referrals of women bringing infants for immunization). Also, health centers conduct data reviews of PPFP counseling, intra-facility referrals and uptake data. At community level, HEWs provide PPFP counseling and services throughout continuum of care, volunteers (Development Army) promote PPFP, and HEWs and volunteers track PPFP method choice and uptake.
干预措施: Volunteers (Development Army) promote PPFP (Behavioral)
Intervention
Health centers provide PPFP counseling and services, implementing current Government of Ethiopia policy and standard of care (including still experimental screening and intra-facility referrals of women bringing infants for immunization). Also, health centers conduct data reviews of PPFP counseling, intra-facility referrals and uptake data. At community level, HEWs provide PPFP counseling and services throughout continuum of care, volunteers (Development Army) promote PPFP, and HEWs and volunteers track PPFP method choice and uptake.
干预措施: Health centers conduct data reviews (Behavioral)
Intervention
Health centers provide PPFP counseling and services, implementing current Government of Ethiopia policy and standard of care (including still experimental screening and intra-facility referrals of women bringing infants for immunization). Also, health centers conduct data reviews of PPFP counseling, intra-facility referrals and uptake data. At community level, HEWs provide PPFP counseling and services throughout continuum of care, volunteers (Development Army) promote PPFP, and HEWs and volunteers track PPFP method choice and uptake.
干预措施: HEWs and volunteers track PPFP (Behavioral)
Comparison
Health centers provide PPFP counseling and services, implementing current Government of Ethiopia policy and standard of care (including still experimental screening and intra-facility referrals of women bringing infants for immunization). Health centers conduct data reviews.
干预措施: Health centers provide PPFP counseling and services (Behavioral)
Comparison
Health centers provide PPFP counseling and services, implementing current Government of Ethiopia policy and standard of care (including still experimental screening and intra-facility referrals of women bringing infants for immunization). Health centers conduct data reviews.
干预措施: Health centers conduct data reviews (Behavioral)
结局指标
主要结局
PPFP uptake
时间窗: 12 months after birth
Proportion of interviewed postpartum women who used a modern family planning method within 12 months after giving birth
次要结局
- Method choice(12 months after birth)