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Client Preferences for Contraceptive Counseling: A Systematic Review.
Edith Fox1, Arlene Reyna1, Nikita M Malcolm2
1Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
American Journal of Preventive Medicine
|October 22, 2018
Summary
Understanding client preferences in contraceptive counseling is key to achieving reproductive goals. This review highlights how provider attention to these preferences can improve family planning care quality.
Area of Science:
- Reproductive Health
- Family Planning
- Evidence Synthesis
Background:
- Client-centered contraceptive counseling is essential for achieving reproductive goals.
- Individualized contraceptive decision-making necessitates understanding client preferences.
- Previous reviews did not comprehensively cover client preferences in contraceptive counseling.
Purpose of the Study:
- To systematically review and summarize evidence on client preferences for contraceptive counseling.
- To identify specific client preferences regarding information, decision-making, provider relationships, and counseling context.
Main Methods:
- Systematic review of 26 articles published between October 1992 and November 2016.
- Searches conducted across 16 electronic bibliographic databases.
- Inclusion criteria focused on studies detailing client preferences for contraceptive counseling.
Main Results:
- Nineteen articles reported on preferences for information received during counseling.
- Thirteen articles detailed preferences for the decision-making process.
- Thirteen articles addressed preferences for provider-client relationships, and 11 for counseling context.
Conclusions:
- Client preferences significantly shape the contraceptive counseling experience.
- Incorporating client preferences can enhance the quality of family planning services.
- Further research is recommended to develop interventions that meet these identified preferences.
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