Community health volunteers and contraceptive use among adolescent girls and young women in Kenya: a three-wave analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Household visits from community health workers can improve adolescent girls and young women's (AGYW) healthcare seeking and access to services. This study aimed to evaluate whether engagement with community health volunteers (CHVs) is associated with health facility visits, contraceptive use and the fulfilment of family planning needs among AGYW in Kenya.

Methods

We analysed data from three waves of Kenya's Performance Monitoring for Action cohort, collected between 2019 and 2022. The analysis focused on 3394 AGYW aged 15-24 years who had ever had sex (observations across the three waves=5784). Multivariable mixed-effects unconditional logistic regression was used to evaluate within-individual associations between past-year CHV household visits to talk about famil

SUBMITTER: Rudgard W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12581035 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature