Background Child marriage remains a challenge in Ghana. Over the years, government and
development partners have made various commitments and efforts to curb the phenomenon …

An interrupted time series with a parallel control group (ITS-CG) design is a powerful quasi-experimental
design commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness of an intervention, on …

Background: There are numerous barriers leading to a high unmet need for family planning
and contraceptives (FP/C). These include limited knowledge and information, poor access to …

Background Social accountability, which is defined as a collective process for holding duty
bearers and service providers to account for their actions, has shown positive outcomes in …

Background Changes in the values, attitudes, and interactions of both service users and
health care providers are central to social accountability processes in reproductive health. …

Background In recent years, researchers and evaluators have made efforts to identify and
use appropriate and innovative research designs that account for the complexity in studying …

The community and provider-driven social accountability intervention (CAPSAI) project was
a complex intervention consisting of interacting components, actors and processes, …

This study evaluated the effects of community engagement through social accountability on
service users’ values, attitudes and interactions. We conducted a pre–post study of the …

Depot medroxyprogesterone acetate administered subcutaneously (DMPA-SC) is an all-in-one
injectable contraceptive administered every 3 months, either by a trained health care …

Previous research has shown that clients are better able to achieve their reproductive
intentions when family planning (FP) services meet their needs and they have satisfying client …