Standardizing postpartum family planning counseling guidance in Ghana: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized implementation effectiveness trial
Implementation of the Postpartum Family Planning Package resulted in high fidelity to the intervention and was effective in promoting patient decision to select contraceptive methods postpartum. Future research should examine the effect of our strategy when used during antenatal and all other postpartum encounters, as well as mechanisms to improve method uptake.
Authors
- Dzifa Adimle Puplampu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1342-2419)
- Sarita R. Sonalkar
- Mary E. Gaffield (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-4614-4314)
- Roseline Doe
- Ernest Maya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6050-6837)
- R. Gallop
- James Kiarie
- Chris Guure
- Arden McAllister
Institutions
- World Health Organization - Pakistan (PK)
- University of Ghana (GH)
- World Health Organization (CH)
- Harvard Global Health Institute (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2026-01-30
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0340482
- Primary Topic
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00