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EPI, a Missed Opportunity for Postpartum Family Planning Utilization

NCT04767139 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1474

Last updated 2023-03-03

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Summary

The global unmet need for postpartum family planning remains high, while immunization services are among the most widely utilized health services. Most women in the extended postpartum period want to delay or avoid future pregnancies but many are not using a modern contraceptive method. Establishing systematic screening, counseling, and referral systems from different contact points particularly from infant immunization units may improve family planning access and uptake in the extended postpartum period. Hence, this study is aimed to assess the effect of counseling for family planning at immunization units on postpartum contraceptive uptake during the extended postpartum period.

Conditions

  • Contraception

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

counseling for family planning

all mothers presented to infant immunization units of the selected health centers will be counseled for family planning service and referred to the family planning unit if they decided to use.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • EngenderHealth

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hawassa University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Abebaw Abeje Muluneh, MSc · Hawassa University

  • Abel Gedefaw, MD, MPh · Hawassa University

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-02-01
Primary Completion
2022-02-25
Completion
2022-10-28

Countries

  • Ethiopia

Study Locations

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