Couples' decision-making on post-partum family planning and antenatal counselling in Uganda: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although health workers have been trained to provide post-partum family planning (PPFP), uptake remains low in Uganda. An important reason is that women want the agreement of their partner, who is often absent at the time of delivery. In order to address this, we aimed to understand the views of couples and explore barriers and facilitators to implementation of antenatal couples' counselling on PPFP in Uganda.

Methods

We conducted individual interviews with a purposive sample of 12 postpartum and 3 antenatal couples; and 34 focus groups with a total of 323 participants (68 adolescent women, 83 women aged 20-49, 79 men, 93 health workers) in four contrasting communities (urban and rural) in South-West and Central Uganda. These were recorded, transcribed, translated

SUBMITTER: Willcox ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8099118 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature