Delivery of home-based postpartum contraception in rural Guatemalan women: a cluster-randomized trial protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Postpartum contraception is important to prevent unintended and closely spaced pregnancies following childbirth.

Methods

This study is a cluster-randomized trial of communities in rural Guatemala where women receive ante- and postnatal care through a community-based nursing program. When nurses visit women for their postpartum visit in the intervention clusters, instead of providing only routine care that includes postpartum contraceptive education and counseling, the nurses will also bring a range of barrier, short-acting, and long-acting contraceptives that will be offered and administered in the home setting, after routine clinical care is provided.

Discussion

A barrier to postpartum contraception is access to medications and devices. Our study removes s

SUBMITTER: Harrison MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6869182 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature