NCT04306029

Improving Adherence to Postpartum Family Planning Guidance in Ghana

Improving Adherence to Postpartum Family Planning Guidance in Ghana: a Hybrid Type 2 Implementation and Effectiveness Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,142 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Evaluating a Postpartum Family Planning Package (PPFP) in a Hybrid Type II implementation study with a stepped-wedge design.

Detailed description

Our overarching goal is to enable providers to consistently offer and deliver highly effective postpartum family planning methods in accordance with international guidelines. Our primary objective in this research is to assess the implementation and effectiveness of the "Postpartum Family Planning Package (PFPP)," an implementation strategy that consists of the following components: 1) a provider training on contraceptive methods available in the immediate postpartum period, and techniques for their placement in the case of intrauterine devices and implants, with quarterly booster trainings, and 2) promotion of the WHO MEC/Postpartum Family Planning Compendium mobile application as a provider decision tool to aid in postpartum family planning counselling.

Conditions

• Contraception

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Postpartum Family Planning Package	"Postpartum Family Planning Package," which consists of provider education on contraceptive delivery in the immediate postpartum period and promotion of the WHO MEC/PFP Compendium mobile application.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-24
• Primary completion: 2021-10-01
• Completion: 2021-11-16
• First posted: 2020-03-12
• Last updated: 2022-01-21

Locations

3 sites across 1 country: Ghana