NCT01020552

Integrating Family Planning Into Postabortion Care

ESD: Integrated Services for Women Seeking Postabortion Care in Kenya

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: FHI 360 · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A descriptive post-intervention study designed to provide data to decision-makers at the Kenyan Ministry of Health, the Extending Service Delivery Project (ESD), and Pathfinder International about whether and how to scale-up the ESD Project's postabortion care (PAC) services package. Approximately three months of data will be collected following the introduction of postabortion care job aids in eight public sector health facilities in Central Province and Nairobi, Kenya. Postabortion clients and providers will be interviewed; facilities providing PAC services will be inventoried using facility checklists.

Detailed description

A descriptive post-intervention study designed to provide data to decision-makers at the Kenyan Ministry of Health, the Extending Service Delivery Project (ESD), and Pathfinder International about whether and how to scale-up the ESD Project's postabortion care (PAC) services package. Approximately three months of data will be collected following the introduction of postabortion care job aids in eight public sector health facilities in Central Province and Nairobi, Kenya. Postabortion clients and providers will be interviewed; facilities providing PAC services will be inventoried using facility checklists.

Conditions

• Postabortion Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Provision of PAC job aids and provider training on the use of the job aids	Facility-level intervention applied to all study facilities

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-09-01
• Primary completion: 2010-04-01
• Completion: 2010-04-01
• First posted: 2009-11-25
• Last updated: 2010-04-29

Locations

8 sites across 1 country: Kenya