Facilitating community participation in family planning and contraceptive services provision and uptake: community and health provider perspectives.


Journal

Reproductive health
ISSN: 1742-4755
Titre abrégé: Reprod Health
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101224380

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
08 Aug 2020
Historique:
received: 21 01 2020
accepted: 29 07 2020
entrez: 11 8 2020
pubmed: 11 8 2020
medline: 22 6 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Although community participation has been identified as being important for improved and sustained health outcomes, designing and successfully implementing it in large scale public health programmes, including family planning and contraceptive (FP/C) service provision, remains challenging. Zambian participants in a multi-country project (the UPTAKE project) took part in the development of an intervention involving community and healthcare provider participation in FP/C services provision and uptake. This study reports key thematic areas identified by the study participants as critical to facilitating community participation in this intervention. This was an exploratory qualitative research study, conducted in Kabwe District, Central Province, in 2017. Twelve focus group discussions were conducted with community members (n = 114), two with healthcare providers (n = 19), and ten in-depth interviews with key community and health sector stakeholders. Data were analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. Four thematic categories were identified by the participants as critical to facilitating community participation in FP/C services. Firstly, accountability in the recruitment of community participants and incorporation of community feedback in FP/C. programming. Secondly, engagement of existing community resources and structures in FP/C services provision. Thirdly, building trust in FP/C methods/services through credible community-based distributors and promotion of appropriate FP/C methods/services. Fourthly, promoting strategies that address structural failures, such as the feminisation of FP/C services and the lack FP/C services that are responsive to adolescent needs. Understanding and considering community members' and healthcare providers' views regarding contextualized and locally relevant participatory approaches, facilitators and challenges to participation, could improve the design, implementation and success of participatory public health programmes, including FP/C.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
Although community participation has been identified as being important for improved and sustained health outcomes, designing and successfully implementing it in large scale public health programmes, including family planning and contraceptive (FP/C) service provision, remains challenging. Zambian participants in a multi-country project (the UPTAKE project) took part in the development of an intervention involving community and healthcare provider participation in FP/C services provision and uptake. This study reports key thematic areas identified by the study participants as critical to facilitating community participation in this intervention.
METHODS METHODS
This was an exploratory qualitative research study, conducted in Kabwe District, Central Province, in 2017. Twelve focus group discussions were conducted with community members (n = 114), two with healthcare providers (n = 19), and ten in-depth interviews with key community and health sector stakeholders. Data were analyzed using a thematic analysis approach.
RESULTS RESULTS
Four thematic categories were identified by the participants as critical to facilitating community participation in FP/C services. Firstly, accountability in the recruitment of community participants and incorporation of community feedback in FP/C. programming. Secondly, engagement of existing community resources and structures in FP/C services provision. Thirdly, building trust in FP/C methods/services through credible community-based distributors and promotion of appropriate FP/C methods/services. Fourthly, promoting strategies that address structural failures, such as the feminisation of FP/C services and the lack FP/C services that are responsive to adolescent needs.
CONCLUSIONS CONCLUSIONS
Understanding and considering community members' and healthcare providers' views regarding contextualized and locally relevant participatory approaches, facilitators and challenges to participation, could improve the design, implementation and success of participatory public health programmes, including FP/C.

Identifiants

pubmed: 32771028
doi: 10.1186/s12978-020-00968-x
pii: 10.1186/s12978-020-00968-x
pmc: PMC7414747
doi:

Substances chimiques

Contraceptive Agents 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

119

Subventions

Organisme : World Health Organization
ID : 001
Pays : International

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Auteurs

Adam Silumbwe (A)

Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Zambia, P.O Box 50110, Lusaka, Zambia. adamsilumbwe@gmail.com.

Theresa Nkole (T)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia.

Margarate N Munakampe (MN)

Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Zambia, P.O Box 50110, Lusaka, Zambia.

Joanna Paula Cordero (JP)

UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) and Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH), Geneva, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

Cecilia Milford (C)

MRU (MatCH Research Unit), Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Durban, South Africa.

Joseph Mumba Zulu (JM)

Department of Health Promotion, School of Public Health, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.

Petrus S Steyn (PS)

UNDP-UNFPA-UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP) and Department of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH), Geneva, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.

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