Delivery of home-based postpartum contraception in Southwest Trifinio, Guatemala: reach, adoption, and implementation in a cluster-randomized trial.

Abstract

OBJECTIVE\nThe objective of this analysis was to present our secondary outcomes (reach, adoption, implementation, maintenance domains) of a prospective trial to test the efficacy of a home-based intervention to increase postpartum contraceptive uptake.\n\n\nMETHODS\nWe executed a cluster-randomized trial to determine if provision of contraception in the home setting increased uptake of postpartum methods. We collected secondary outcomes on how our implementation strategies of revising professional roles and changing service sites performed in terms of the number of people our study enrolled of all women eligible (reach), how it was accepted by the providers (adoption), what methods were used to conduct the study (implementation), and preliminary results on whether or not the intervention will be continued (maintenance). We conducted a survey and focus group discussion to assess adoption and implementation among intervention nurse staff, and a survey in a convenience sample of patients in the intervention arm to assess acceptability.\n\n\nRESULTS\nOur primary outcome of effectiveness has been published; implant uptake was 25% in the intervention cohort compared to 3% in the control clusters. Our reach was 89%, as 208 of the 234 eligible women consented to participate. Among a convenience sample of N\u202f=\u202f25 patients completing a survey on the intervention 12 months after enrollment, ≥ 68% (n\u202f=\u202f17 of 25) felt the intervention was acceptable. From the nursing perspective (N\u202f=\u202f7), only a minority of nurses felt the intervention was complicated (n\u202f=\u202f1, 17%), and (n= 7, 100%) reported the intervention was acceptable.\n\n\nCONCLUSIONS\nOur intervention achieved good reach (89% of the eligible population) and was acceptable to the majority of patients and providers. Practitioners interested in achieving greater reach of contraceptive interventions in their communities may consider changing service sites to convenience their clients, as our results suggest this approach was acceptable.