NCT01288274

Community Based Distribution of Injectable Contraceptives in Tigray, Ethiopia

Safety and Feasibility of Community Based DMPA Provision in Tigray, Ethiopia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,062 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Berkeley · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study was to demonstrate that with appropriate training, the provision of injectable contraceptives by community based reproductive health agents (CBRHAs) does not significantly differ from low-level clinic-based providers, or health extension workers (HEWs).

Detailed description

The overall goal of this project was to increase contraceptive prevalence and reduce the current high unmet need for family planning in rural areas of Ethiopia. In addition, the project was intended to provide evidence to policy makers to expand community based distribution (CBD) of the injectible contraceptive, depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), in both Tigray and other regions of Ethiopia where community based reproductive health agents (CBRHAs) or other community health workers (CHWs) are present. Following from that, the specific aims of this project were to: * Provide evidence that CBRHAs can safely and effectively distribute and facilitate supply of DMPA to rural women * Demonstrate that CBRHAs can deliver DMPA with the same safety, effectiveness, and acceptability outcomes as HEWs * Increase access to DMPA by using CBRHAs

Conditions

• Contraception
• Family Planning
• Task Shifting
• Community Based Distribution
• DMPA

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Community Based administration of DMPA	Injectable contraceptive administered by clinic based health extension worker or community based reproductive health agent using same protocol to test equivalence of community based distribution to facility based distribution

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-06-01
• Primary completion: 2009-08-01
• Completion: 2009-08-01
• First posted: 2011-02-02
• Last updated: 2024-02-15

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Ethiopia