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A Study Comparing Implant Provision by Community Health Extension Workers With Nurses and Midwives in Nigeria

NCT03088722 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 7903

Last updated 2017-03-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This proposed study, to be run by Marie Stopes International Organisation Nigeria (MSION) will investigate whether Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) in Nigeria can insert and remove contraceptive implants to the same level of safety and quality as a nurse or midwife, and whether this is acceptable to their clients and colleagues. The study will also document feasibility issues which would be relevant to any future national programmatic scale-up.

Conditions

  • Contraception

Interventions

OTHER

Training CHEWs to provide contraceptive implants

Training CHEWs to provide contraceptive implants

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Population Council

    collaborator OTHER

  • GRM Futures Group

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Marie Stopes International

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
49 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-01
Primary Completion
2016-11-30
Completion
2016-11-30

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