ArticleJournal of global health2024
Tools for patient-centred family planning counselling: A scoping review.
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- Women's knowledge about Intrauterine Device and user satisfaction in Brazil: a systematic review.Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da U S P · 2025Pooled it
- User and Provider Experiences with a Digital Health Family Planning Counseling Tool for Women Living with HIV in Kenya.Studies in family planning · 2026Trial
- Evaluating Client-Centered Counseling Approaches to Improve Contraceptive Uptake at Family Planning Centers in Rawalpindi, Pakistan: Protocol for a Pilot Cluster-Randomized Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- User experiences with a digital health family planning counseling tool for women living with HIV in Kenya.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background: The focus of family planning counselling is gradually shifting from the tiered-effectiveness model to patient-centred counselling. Although tools exist that aim to make family planning counselling more patient-oriented without increasing the provider's workload, they are not widely used. This scoping review aims to address this by identifying key tools to make family planning care more patient-centred, reviewing the domains of patient-centred care they address, and identifying gaps in the evidence base. Methods: We systematically searched PubMed and SCOPUS for documents on 'patient-centred family planning counselling or support' published between 2013 and 2022. Eligibility criteria included discussion of: 1) strategies for providing patient-centred care; 2) interventions using a patient-centred approach; or 3) the impact of patient-centred approaches. We identified tools for patient-centred care, and mapped them against an existing framework of the main domains of patient-centred care. We reported the available evidence of the impact on those tools. Results: Our scoping review is based on 33 documents. We identified six tools for increasing the patient-centeredness of family planning counselling. None of the tools addressed all domains of patient-centred care. Evidence about the impact of these tools remains scarce. Although there is some evidence about the acceptability of the tools, key evidence gaps include the effect of the tools on quality of care and family planning outcomes. Conclusions: Family planning implementers should be aware that existing tools differ in the extent to which they address key domains of patient-centred family planning counselling. There is a need for further research on factors that may deter providers from adopting these tools. A larger evidence base is needed to permit a future systematic review to determine the effect of these tools on family planning outcomes, such as method adoption and continuation.
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