A mixed-methods evaluation of the impact of a person-centered family planning intervention for community health workers on family planning outcomes in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Person-centered quality for family planning has been gaining increased attention, yet few interventions have focused on this, or measured associations between person-centered quality for family planning and family planning outcomes (uptake, continuation, etc.). In India, the first point of contact for family planning is often the community health care worker, in this case, Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs).

Methods

In this study, we evaluate a training on person-centered family planning as an add-on to a training on family planning provision for urban ASHAs in Varanasi, India in 2019 using mixed methods. We first validate a scale to measure person-centered family planning in a community health worker population and find it to be valid. Higher person-cente

SUBMITTER: Diamond-Smith N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7733295 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature