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CompletedNCT03088722

A Study Comparing Implant Provision by Community Health Extension Workers With Nurses and Midwives in Nigeria

Task-sharing to Expand Access to Contraceptive Implants: A Study Comparing Implant Provision by Community Health Extension Workers With Nurses and Midwives in Nigeria

Status: Completed
Phase: N/A
Study type: Interventional
Enrollment: 7,903 (actual)

Sponsor: Marie Stopes International · Academic / Other
Sex: Female
Age: 18 Years – 49 Years
Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This proposed study, to be run by Marie Stopes International Organisation Nigeria (MSION) will investigate whether Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) in Nigeria can insert and remove contraceptive implants to the same level of safety and quality as a nurse or midwife, and whether this is acceptable to their clients and colleagues. The study will also document feasibility issues which would be relevant to any future national programmatic scale-up.

Conditions

Contraception

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Training CHEWs to provide contraceptive implants	Training CHEWs to provide contraceptive implants

Timeline

Start date: 2016-01-01
Primary completion: 2016-11-30
Completion: 2016-11-30
First posted: 2017-03-23
Last updated: 2017-03-23

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03088722. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.