Guidelines for Overcoming Design Problems in Family Planning Operations Research

This report is concerned with designs for field intervention studies utilized in operations research. Beginning with an overview of the objectives of operations research, the authors go on to review the difficulties associated with using "true experimental" designs. Proposed guidelines for designing quasi-experimental studies are then discussed. The guidelines focus on using multiple sources of data, multiple measurements over time, and multiple replications of the study intervention. Finally, an example is presented of one ongoing operations research study in Sri Lanka

Control (management · Duration (music · Environmental health · Environmental planning · Geography · Intervention (counseling · Management science · Operations management · Operations research · Population · Quasi-experiment · Random assignment · Research design · Sri lanka · Statistics · Agricultural risk and resilience · Computer Science · Engineering · Global Maternal and Child Health · Mathematics · Medicine · Nursing

• The effectiveness of family planning programs evaluated with true experimental designs

  Karl E Bauman•American Journal of Public Health•1997

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• The impact of a reproductive health franchise on client satisfaction in rural Nepal

  Open Access•Sajiga Agha, Asif Mahbub Karim et al.•Health Policy and Planning•2007

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• Using operations research to guide family planning program development and policy formulation in sub-Saharan Africa

  Open Access•Ian Askew, Andrew Fisher•Population Research and Policy…•1995

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• The Impact of the Navrongo Project on Contraceptive Knowledge and Use, Reproductive Preferences, and Fertility

  Open Access•Cornelius Debpuur, Jonathan F Phillips et al.•Studies in Family Planning•2002

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• Bridging the Gap Between Evidence‐based Innovation and National Health‐sector Reform in Ghana

  Open Access•John Koku Awoonor‐Williams, Ellie S Feinglass et al.•Studies in Family Planning•2004

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• The Long‐Term Fertility Impact of the Navrongo Project in Northern Ghana

  Open Access•Jonathan F Phillips, James F Phillips et al.•Studies in Family Planning•2012

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• Maternal mortality and the problem of accessibility to obstetric care; the strategy of maternity waiting homes

  Open Access•Irene Figa'-Talamanca, I Figá-Talamanca•Social Science & Medicine•1996

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