An interventional study of family planning counseling let by community health workers in Focus: Contraceptive Counseling and Focus: Postpartum Contraception, sponsored by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts. Completed at 1 site in Palestinian Territories. Open to female participants, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2015-08-17.
Sponsored by Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts · Not applicable and Interventional
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.
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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.
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.
Self-reported contraceptive use
Time frame: 6 months post-partum
Intent to use contraception in the future
Time frame: 6 months postpartum
Non-desire to use contraception
Time frame: 6 months postpartum
The record gives a start of Aug 2013, a primary completion of Dec 2014 and a completion of Dec 2014. It does not say whether these dates are actual or estimated.
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