NCT03450564

Effect of Community-Based Interventions on Increasing Family Planning Utilization in Pastoralist Community

Completed NA Last updated 21 May 2019

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Women Education in Family Size in 891 participants. Completed in 27 September 2018.

Timeline

1 January 2018

Primary endpoint
5 September 2018

27 September 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Mekelle University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	health services research
Enrollment	891
Start date	1 January 2018
Primary completion	5 September 2018
Estimated completion	27 September 2018
Sites	1 location across Ethiopia

Drugs / interventions tested

• Women Education
• Male Involvement
• Control group — full drug profile →

Conditions studied

• Family Size — all drugs for Family Size →

Sponsor

Mekelle University

Who can join

Adults 15 to 49, any sex, with Family Size. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

The cluster randomized controlled trial was done in Pastoralist community of Afar region, Ethiopia for a total of nine months. There was three arms in the study. The type of randomization will be a cluster randomized controlled trial where kebele are randomized to two different interventions and control groups. These interventions are women education to use family planning and male education/involvement to enhance family planning use in the community.

Publications & conference data

4 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Use of community-based interventions to promote family planning use among pastoralist women in Ethiopia: cluster randomized controlled trial.
   Alemayehu M, Medhanyie AA, Reed E, Bezabih AM. · · 2021 · cited 15× · PMID 34407805 · DOI 10.1186/s12905-021-01434-x
2. Individual-level and community-level factors associated with the family planning use among pastoralist community of Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study.
   Alemayehu M, Medhanyie AA, Reed E, Mulugeta A. · · 2020 · cited 7× · PMID 32907899 · DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-036519
3. Effects of continuum of care for maternal health service utilisation on intention to use family planning among pastoralist women of Ethiopia: a robust regression analysis and propensity score matching modelling.
   Alemayehu M, Medhanyie AA, Reed E, Kahsay ZH, et al · · 2023 · cited 2× · PMID 37438064 · DOI 10.1136/bmjopen-2023-072179
4. Use of community-based interventions to promote Family Planning use among Pastoralist women in Ethiopia: Cluster randomized controlled trial
   Alemayehu M, Medhanyie AA, Reed E, Bezabih AM. · · 2021 · DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-38750/v2