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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 176 (actual)
• Sponsor: Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Focus: Contraceptive Counseling
• Focus: Postpartum Contraception

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-08-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2013-05-15
• Last updated: 2015-08-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Palestinian Territories