Impact of a social franchise intervention program on the adoption of long and short acting family planning methods in hard to reach communities in Myanmar - PubMed (original) (raw)

Comparative Study

Impact of a social franchise intervention program on the adoption of long and short acting family planning methods in hard to reach communities in Myanmar

Tin Aung et al. J Public Health (Oxf). 2019.

Abstract

Myanmar has experienced slowly rising levels of contraceptive use in recent years. Between 2014 and 2016, Population Services International (PSI)/Myanmar implemented a multi-pronged intervention to increase contraceptive use by leveraging its social marketing clinics and providers, and providing additional community outreach. The aim of this study is to explore trends over time in contraceptive uptake and assess whether exposure to the PSI program was associated with women adopting a method. Baseline and end line data were collected using a repeated cross-sectional survey of married women of reproductive age in 2014 and 2016. We find that use of the implant and intrauterine device (IUD) has increased among contraceptive users over time, although there was no significant association for short-term methods. There was also an increase in all types of method use between time periods compared to non-users of contraception. Women who reported seeing a PSI contraception pamphlet had increased odds of having adopted an IUD or implant in the study period. This suggests that interventions that address both supply and demand side barriers to contraception can have an impact on contraceptive uptake, especially more effective long acting methods.

Keywords: health services; population-based and preventative services; public health.

© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Faculty of Public Health.

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