Assessment of Family Planning and Immunization Service Integration in Malawi

Jhpiego

Status: Completed

Conditions: Contraception; Contraception Behavior; Contraceptive Usage; Infant, Newborn, Diseases

Treatments: Behavioral: Family planning and infant immunization service integration

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT03404284

IRB00007595

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a mixed methods process evaluation of a programmatic intervention to integrate family planning and immunization services at health facilities and through outreach services in Dowa and Ntchisi districts of Malawi. The study involved qualitative methods (in depth interviews and focus group discussions with service providers, mothers and fathers of infants <1 year, and supervisors and program managers) as well as secondary analysis of service statistics for family planning and immunization services and of supervision reports.

Enrollment: 43 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All health facilities and associated outreach sites in Ntchisi and Dowa districts implementing the integrated approach with support from the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival Program

Exclusion criteria

• All health facilities and associated outreach sites not implementing the integrated approach with support from the USAID-funded Maternal and Child Survival Program

Trial design

43 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention facilities

Description:

Includes 43 health facilities and their associated outreach sites

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family planning and infant immunization service integration