Agency in Family Planning: A Scoping Review of the Measurement of Agency in Low- and Middle-Income Countries.

ABSTRACT: Improving women's agency in family planning is an integral component of empowerment, requiring culturally relevant, reliable, and valid measures. Measuring agency-action towards the achievement of self-determined goals-is key to tracking progress as highlighted by its inclusion in the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, agency measurement within low- and middle-income contexts has all too often involved applying measures developed and tested in high-income contexts, and conceptual confusion has also led to both overlapping measures and those that omit key facets of agency. To examine the construction and application of agency measures in family planning research and programs, we conducted a scoping review of studies in low-and middle-income countries. Of 9,289 articles and abstracts screen

SUBMITTER: Wood F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12501686 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature