Behavioral Drivers Influencing Women’s Decision to Use Self-Injectable Contraception Provided by Community Health Surveillance Assistants in Rural Malawi
Women's decisions to adopt SI were shaped by capability, motivation, and opportunity, with CHSAs playing a pivotal role. Future family planning programs should prioritize CHSAs' training and deployment to improve SI uptake, fostering autonomy and accessibility for rural women.
Authors
- Dilys Walker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9599-388X)
- Beth Phillips (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7467-0494)
- Janelli Vallin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-3383-9868)
- Chifundo Zimba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4518-589X)
- Josephine Changole
- A. Nkhoma
- Martha Kamanga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1576-6848)
- Address Malata (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8844-935X)
- Lauren Suchman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3684-0314)
- Alfred Maluwa (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4451-7277)
- Kelsey Holt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9093-4322)
- Innocencia Mtalimanja
- Emily Himes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2713-0051)
- Jenny Liu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3929-0135)
- Mandaachepa Nyando
- Emas Potolani
- Rabecca Bika
- Jessie Salamba
Institutions
- University of California, San Francisco (US)
- Malawi University of Science and Technology (MW)
- Kamuzu Central Hospital (MW)
- Reproductive Science Center (US)
- Malawi Government (MW)
- Ministry of Health (MW)
- Institute on Aging (US)
- San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium (US)
- Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (MW)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Women s Health Reports
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1089/whr.2025.0022
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.49