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NCT Number: NCT01854671

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

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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Key information

Conditions

Focus: Contraceptive Counseling Focus: Postpartum Contraception

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Palestinian Ministry of Health Maternal Child Health Clinics (Ramallah and Al-Bireh)

Ramallah and Al-Bireh, West Bank, Palestinian Territories

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Women attending the MoH Ramallah or Al-Bireh clinic for antenatal care and 34-38 weeks pregnant at enrollment
  • Planning delivery at an MoH hospital
  • Able and willing to be contacted by phone or home visit

Exclusion criteria

  • Women less than 34 weeks pregnant or non-pregnant
  • Planning delivery at a private or NGO hospital
  • Unwilling to be contacted for follow-up after enrollment

Treatment and study plan

family planning counseling let by community health workers

Other

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.

Primary outcomes

  1. Self-reported contraceptive use

    Time frame: 6 months post-partum

Secondary outcomes

  1. Intent to use contraception in the future

    Time frame: 6 months postpartum

  2. Non-desire to use contraception

    Time frame: 6 months postpartum

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts

Other

Collaborators

  • Society for Family Planning Research Fund

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2014
Study completion
2014
First posted
May 15, 2013
Registry last updated
Aug 17, 2015

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