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Table 1 Intervention components and evaluation strategies

From: Moving from legality to reality: how medical abortion methods were introduced with implementation science in Zambia

Strategic component

Type and frequency of monitoring and evaluation

Health systems

Summary service statistic data from logbooks abstracted for each abortion and PAC procedure

Facility assessments with key informants completed at baseline and endline at each facility

Individual provider interviews (N = 104) at baseline and endline

Individual client exit interviews at endline: 906 immediately following the MVA procedure or the initiation of MA and 356 at follow-up visit 7–10 days afterwards

Pharmacy orientation

Individual baseline and endline pharmacy interviews, 55 before training and 53 at 12–18 months post-training

Baseline and endline mystery client visits to pharmacies at each participating pharmacy at baseline (N = 76) and at endline (N = 85)

Community engagement and mobilization

Quarterly activity reports from each of the eight CBOs reaching more than 36,000 community members

Randomized household surveys with 568 respondents at baseline and 744 respondents at endline