Table 3 Summary of behaviour change techniques using Briscoe and Aboud’s [7] categories

Bashour et al. 2008

Contraceptive uptake

Intervention- 37 %;40 % and 42 % across arms

No significant difference between arms. Self-reported

Health education

-

Discussion of problems

-

-

-

-

Terefe and Larson 1993

Contraceptive use

Intervention 47 %,control 33 %

Contraceptive use and continuation

Health education

-

-

-

If requested, pills and condoms

-

Couple administered information

Stephenson et al. 2011

Modern contraceptive uptake and switching

baseline use 21.5 %, after intervention-93.6 %

Uptake of contraceptives, switching and addition if using condoms only

Information

-

-

-

If requested, pills, injectables, Norplant

Video, Print media

Couple administered intervention

Male motivator project, Shattuck et al. 2011

Family planning uptake

intervention-78 %, control-59 %

Self-reported

Information from peers

-

-

Peers

-

-

Male partner only administered intervention

Bolam et al. 1998 postnatal health education

Uptake of FP services or contraceptive use, Two different outcomes, self-reported

intervention-20 %, control-14 %

Self-reported

Information on importance of FP, location of nearest clinic, choice of methods.

-

-

-

-

Cloth flip charts developed by local artist.

-

Lutalo et al. 2010

Contraceptive use prevalence

intervention- 23 %, control-20 %

Contraceptive use and uptake

Information at meetings.

-

-

Opinion leaders and certified users of FP, volunteers chosen by communities

Provision of pills, condoms

Videos, role play, drama, IEC material- leaflets, booklets and posters

-