Hossain M B, Phillips J F
Maternal and Child Health-Family Planning Extension Project, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka.
Stud Fam Plann. 1996 Mar-Apr;27(2):98-106.
In 1978, the Bangladesh family planning program launched a national program of outreach services that continues to the present. Young married women were hired and trained to visit women in their homes, offer contraceptive services, provide information, and support sustained use over time. This report uses data from two rural districts to assess the effect of the household visitation program on the continuity of contraceptive use. Results of a multivariate analysis show that household outreach has had a pronounced net effect on the continuity of contraceptive use throughout the study period and that the magnitude of this effect has increased with time. This finding suggests that sustained contraceptive use continues to benefit from home-based outreach even after a decade of service encounters. Policy implications of this finding are discussed.
1978年，孟加拉国家计划生育项目启动了一项全国性的外展服务项目，该项目一直持续至今。年轻的已婚女性被雇佣并接受培训，以便到女性家中进行拜访，提供避孕服务、信息，并支持长期使用避孕措施。本报告利用来自两个农村地区的数据，评估家庭拜访项目对避孕措施持续使用情况的影响。多变量分析结果表明，在整个研究期间，家庭外展服务对避孕措施的持续使用产生了显著的净效应，而且这种效应的程度随着时间的推移而增加。这一发现表明，即使在开展服务十年之后，持续的避孕措施使用仍受益于家庭外展服务。本文讨论了这一发现的政策含义。
