Dissemination and use of WHO family planning guidance and tools: a qualitative assessment

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• Alternative Title:
  Health Res Policy Syst
• Personal Author:
  Kraft, Joan Marie ; Oduyebo, Titilope ; Jatlaoui, Tara C. ; Curtis, Kathryn M. ; Whiteman, Maura K. ; Zapata, Lauren B. ; Gaffield, Mary Eluned
• Description:
  Background
  
  As countries continue to improve their family planning (FP) programmes, they may draw on WHO’s evidence-based FP guidance and tools (i.e. materials) that support the provision of quality FP services.
  
  Methods
  
  To better understand the use and perceived impact of the materials and ways to strengthen their use by countries, we conducted qualitative interviews with WHO regional advisors, and with stakeholders in Ethiopia and Senegal who use WHO materials.
  
  Results
  
  WHO uses a multi-faceted strategy to directly and indirectly disseminate materials to country-level decision-makers. The materials are used to develop national family planning guidelines, protocols and training curricula. Participants reported that they trust the WHO materials because they are evidence based, and that they adapt materials to the country context (e.g. remove content on methods not available in the country). The main barrier to the use of national materials is resource constraints.
  
  Conclusions
  
  Although the system and processes for dissemination work, improvements might contribute to increased use of the materials. For example, providers may benefit from additional guidance on how to counsel women with characteristics or medical conditions where contraceptive method eligibility criteria do not clearly rule in or rule out a method.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Family Planning Guidance Research Research Translation Research Use
• Source:
  Health Res Policy Syst. 16.
• Pubmed ID:
  29789001
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC5964918
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  001/World Health Organization/International ; AID-GH-15-00002/United States Agency for International Development/
• Volume:
  16
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8d7d2877ea0170f7eec426386543d18f2e541844dddd1b1ee16ee4f4b43b0b0a
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/56523/cdc_56523_DS1.pdf
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