Effects of the Philippine Family Planning Outreach Project on Contraceptive Prevalence

The 1980 Community Outreach Survey was used to assess the impact of the Outreach Project involving 2600 community workers on contraceptive prevalence. The primary measure was clinical prevalence (numerator limited to use of clinical methods--pills, IUD, and sterilization; the denominator was married women aged 15-44). The 46 socioeconomic (SES) and program input variables that appeared to be most closely correlated with contraceptive prevalence were subject to multivariate analysis on a stepwise basis. Of these 5 out of 7 SES variables accounted for 26.9% of the variance in clinical prevalence (household SES 22%, education of head of household 3%). 10 program variables (apart from specific Outreach Project variables) accounted for less than 4%. 12 Outreach Project variables accounted for a further 11.9% of the total variance or 17.2% of the residual variance. The most influential Outreach Project variables were whether the supply point officer was currently using a clinical method and the amount of personal contact with couples. The Outreach Project variables with no appreciable independent effect included mass media inputs, background characteristics of workers, and job satisfaction of the workers. Overall, the multivariate analysis demonstrated that the Outreach Project has affected contraceptive prevalence in the rural areas of the Philippines not reached by clinic-based operations

Economic growth · Environmental health · Family medicine · Family planning · Marital status · Multivariate analysis · Outreach · Population · Socioeconomic status · Demography · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine

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