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Measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda

The individual impacts of several components of family planning service quality on contraceptive use have been studied, but the influence of a composite measure synthesizing these components has not been often investigated. We (1) develop a composite score for family planning service quality based o...

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Autores principales: Fruhauf, Timothee, Zimmerman, Linnea, Kibira, Simon Peter Sebina, Makumbi, Fredrick, Gichangi, Peter, Shiferaw, Solomon, Seme, Assefa, Guiella, Georges, Tsui, Amy
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6097453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30010860
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czy058
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author Fruhauf, Timothee
Zimmerman, Linnea
Kibira, Simon Peter Sebina
Makumbi, Fredrick
Gichangi, Peter
Shiferaw, Solomon
Seme, Assefa
Guiella, Georges
Tsui, Amy
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Zimmerman, Linnea
Kibira, Simon Peter Sebina
Makumbi, Fredrick
Gichangi, Peter
Shiferaw, Solomon
Seme, Assefa
Guiella, Georges
Tsui, Amy
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description The individual impacts of several components of family planning service quality on contraceptive use have been studied, but the influence of a composite measure synthesizing these components has not been often investigated. We (1) develop a composite score for family planning service quality based on health facility data from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda and (2) examine the influence of structural quality on contraceptive practice in these four countries. We used nationally representative cross-sectional survey data of health facilities and women of reproductive age. First, we constructed quality scores for facilities using principal component analysis to integrate 18 variables. Second, we linked women to their closest facility using geo-coordinates. Third, we estimated multivariable logistic regression models to calculate women’s odds ratios for modern contraceptive use adjusting for facilities’ quality and other factors. In Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Uganda, the odds of using a modern method of contraception was greater if the nearest facility provided high- or medium-quality services compared with low quality in the univariable model. After controlling for possible confounders, the adjusted odds ratios were significant for high quality (aOR: 3.12, P value: 0.005) and medium quality (aOR: 2.57, P value: 0.009) in Ethiopia and in the hypothesized direction but not statistically significant in Uganda or Burkina Faso, and in the opposite direction in Kenya. A process quality measure—having been visited by a community health worker—was statistically significantly associated with modern contraceptive use in three of the four countries (Burkina Faso aOR: 2.18, P value: 0.000; Ethiopia aOR: 1.78, P value: 0.000; Uganda aOR: 1.96, P value: 0.012). These results suggest that service quality in public facilities may be less relevant to contraceptive use in environments where the universe and reach of providers changes actively. Programs promoting contraception therefore need to consider quality within facility types and their service environments.
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spelling pubmed-60974532018-08-22 Measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda Fruhauf, Timothee Zimmerman, Linnea Kibira, Simon Peter Sebina Makumbi, Fredrick Gichangi, Peter Shiferaw, Solomon Seme, Assefa Guiella, Georges Tsui, Amy Health Policy Plan Original Articles The individual impacts of several components of family planning service quality on contraceptive use have been studied, but the influence of a composite measure synthesizing these components has not been often investigated. We (1) develop a composite score for family planning service quality based on health facility data from Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda and (2) examine the influence of structural quality on contraceptive practice in these four countries. We used nationally representative cross-sectional survey data of health facilities and women of reproductive age. First, we constructed quality scores for facilities using principal component analysis to integrate 18 variables. Second, we linked women to their closest facility using geo-coordinates. Third, we estimated multivariable logistic regression models to calculate women’s odds ratios for modern contraceptive use adjusting for facilities’ quality and other factors. In Burkina Faso, Ethiopia and Uganda, the odds of using a modern method of contraception was greater if the nearest facility provided high- or medium-quality services compared with low quality in the univariable model. After controlling for possible confounders, the adjusted odds ratios were significant for high quality (aOR: 3.12, P value: 0.005) and medium quality (aOR: 2.57, P value: 0.009) in Ethiopia and in the hypothesized direction but not statistically significant in Uganda or Burkina Faso, and in the opposite direction in Kenya. A process quality measure—having been visited by a community health worker—was statistically significantly associated with modern contraceptive use in three of the four countries (Burkina Faso aOR: 2.18, P value: 0.000; Ethiopia aOR: 1.78, P value: 0.000; Uganda aOR: 1.96, P value: 0.012). These results suggest that service quality in public facilities may be less relevant to contraceptive use in environments where the universe and reach of providers changes actively. Programs promoting contraception therefore need to consider quality within facility types and their service environments. Oxford University Press 2018-09 2018-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6097453/ /pubmed/30010860 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czy058 Text en © The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press in association with The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shiferaw, Solomon
Seme, Assefa
Guiella, Georges
Tsui, Amy
Measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
title Measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
title_full Measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
title_fullStr Measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
title_full_unstemmed Measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
title_short Measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda
title_sort measuring family planning quality and its link with contraceptive use in public facilities in burkina faso, ethiopia, kenya and uganda
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6097453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30010860
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czy058
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