A Study Comparing Implant Provision by Community Health Extension Workers With Nurses and Midwives in Nigeria

Marie Stopes International

Status: Completed

Conditions: Contraception

Treatments: Other: Training CHEWs to provide contraceptive implants

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03088722

E2331

Details and patient eligibility

About

This proposed study, to be run by Marie Stopes International Organisation Nigeria (MSION) will investigate whether Community Health Extension Workers (CHEWs) in Nigeria can insert and remove contraceptive implants to the same level of safety and quality as a nurse or midwife, and whether this is acceptable to their clients and colleagues. The study will also document feasibility issues which would be relevant to any future national programmatic scale-up.

Enrollment: 7,903 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 49 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• facilities are located with 20km of a referral facility
• facilities - facility staff are willing to participate, e.g. willingness to conduct family planning awareness-raising activities, willing to maintain project records
• facilities - selected provider at each facility expects to be in the facility for the 12-month period of client recruitment
• clients - women present to attending facilities and request a contraceptive implant

Exclusion criteria

• facilities - involved in overlapping interventions

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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7,903 participants in 2 patient groups

Community health extension workers

Experimental group

Description:

Community health extension workers providing contraceptive implants

Treatment:

Other: Training CHEWs to provide contraceptive implants

Nurses and midwives

No Intervention group

Description:

Nurses and midwives providing contraceptive implants (existing care)