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Investigating the Effect of a Prenatal Family Planning Counseling Intervention Led by Community Health Workers on Postpartum Contraceptive Use Among Women in the West Bank

NCT01854671 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 176

Last updated 2015-08-17

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to measure the difference in proportion of postpartum women using contraception after a Community Health Worker (CHW) family planning educational intervention compared to women who receive standard care in the West Bank district of Ramallah and Al-Bireh.

Primary hypothesis: Postpartum contraceptive use will increase in women who receive a dedicated family planning counseling intervention delivered by CHWs during antenatal care compared to women receiving usual care.

Conditions

  • Focus: Contraceptive Counseling
  • Focus: Postpartum Contraception

Interventions

OTHER

family planning counseling let by community health workers

The family planning counseling sessions led by community health workers will present advantages of birth spacing, available methods of postpartum contraception, contraindications (if any) for the method, when each method can be safely started postpartum, where each method can be obtained, and importance of 6 week postpartum clinic follow-up. There will also be a take-home contraceptive method brochure given at conclusion of information session -primarily pictorial and in Arabic, to facilitate discussion at home with husbands and family members.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Society for Family Planning Research Fund

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Principal Investigator, MD, MPH · Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • Palestinian Territories

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