Influence of integrated services on postpartum family planning use: a cross-sectional survey from urban Senegal

BMC Public Health

Cheikh Seck¹  Cheikh Mbacké Faye⁴  Chinelo Okigbo³  Jean Christophe Fotso²  Ilene S Speizer³ 

[1] Initiative Sénégalaise de Santé Urbaine (ISSU), IntraHealth International, Dakar, Senegal;Concern Worldwide, New York, NY, USA;Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation Project, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA;African Population Health and Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya

关键词: Maternal, Newborn, and Child health;    Urban;    Integrated services;    Senegal;    Postpartum family planning;   

Others  :  1161930
DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2458-13-752

 received in 2013-01-16, accepted in 2013-08-08,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Although the majority of postpartum women indicate a desire to delay a next birth, family planning (FP) methods are often not offered to, or taken up by, women in the first year postpartum. This study uses data from urban Senegal to examine exposure to FP information and services at the time of delivery and at child immunization appointments and to determine if these points of integration are associated with greater use of postpartum FP.

Methods

A representative, household sample of women, ages 15–49, was surveyed from six cities in Senegal in 2011. This study focuses on women who were within two years postpartum (n = 1879). We also include women who were surveyed through exit interviews after a visit to a high volume health facility in the same six cities; clients included were visiting the health facility for delivery, post-abortion care, postnatal care, and child immunization services (n = 794). Descriptive analyses are presented to examine exposure to FP services among postpartum women and women visiting the health facility. Logistic regression models are used to estimate the effect of integrated services on postpartum FP use in the household sample of women. Analyses were conducted using Stata version 12.

Results

Among exit interview clients, knowledge of integrated services is high but only a few reported receiving FP services. A majority of the women who did not receive FP services indicated an interest in receiving such information and services.

Among the household sample of women up to two-years postpartum, those who received FP information at the time of delivery are more likely to be using modern FP postpartum than their counterparts who also delivered in a facility but did not receive such information. Exposure to FP services at an immunization visit was not significantly related to postpartum FP use. Another key finding is that women with greater self-efficacy are more likely to use a modern FP method.

Conclusion

This study’s findings lend strong support for the need to improve integration of FP services into maternal, newborn, and child health services with the goal of increasing postpartum women’s use of FP methods in urban Senegal.

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Speizer et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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