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YEAR: 1997

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

A rapid procedure to assess awareness of, accessibility to, and utilization

of health and family planning services.

AUTHORS

Rahman M; Barkat-e-Khuda

SOURCE

In: Reproductive health in rural Bangladesh: policy and programmatic

implications. Volume 2, edited by Thomas T. Kane, Barkat-e-Khuda, James F.

Phillips. Dhaka, Bangladesh, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease

Research, Bangladesh [ICDDR,B], 1997 Jul. :365-84. ICDDR,B Monograph No. 7

ABSTRACT

This book chapter presents a proposed procedure for improving program planning among local-level family planning

managers in Bangladesh. The procedure is a rapid assessment procedure that involves sampling 600 married

women of reproductive age (MWRA) in each thana and includes 20 villages. Villages are selected proportionally to

the size of the union. Interviews are conducted among 30 MWRA from each village by one person. This chapter

describes the cluster sampling method. One thana can be completed in 56 days. A male supervisor organizes field

activities. EPIINFO software in a notebook personal computer is used to enter and correct data in the field. Harvard

Graphics is used to present tables and graphs. The authors give an example of how to assess the health and family

planning needs at 12 rural thanas of Chittagong district, a low contraceptive performing area. It was clear that the

client worker contact and use of fixed site service centers was higher in higher performing thanas. The managers

reviewed presented findings at a management workshop, where interventions were developed. The assessment took

2 weeks. This procedure is useful because the cluster size is large enough to keep the homogeneity low and to

produce a relatively small variance. A cluster of 30 MWRA is likely to include 56 heterogeneous "bari" or patrilineal

household clusters of 56 MWRA. The heterogeneity of 20 clusters of 30 MWRA would thus be high. Expanding the

sample to 30 clusters would substantially increase costs. The authors recommend an annual performance survey in

each thana. An assessment of each thana of two greater districts every year would require three teams comprising a

research officer, four interviewers, and one DMA with a notebook PC and a printer. This would cost about US$0.7

million per year, or US$1 per 30 households or Tk1.5 per household. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 1032-

06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "A rapid procedure to assess awareness of, accessibility to,

and utilization of health and family planning services.", is(are) Rahman M; Barkat-e-Khuda. The source of this

article is "In: Reproductive health in rural Bangladesh: policy and programmatic implications. Volume 2, edited by

Thomas T. Kane, Barkat-e-Khuda, James F. Phillips. Dhaka, Bangladesh, International Centre for Diarrhoeal

Disease Research, Bangladesh [ICDDR,B], 1997 Jul. :365-84. ICDDR,B Monograph No. 7". This article was

published in 1997 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 1032-06. All rights reserved with

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