Game Changers for Family Planning Peer Advocacy Program

Pilot of a Peer Advocacy Training Intervention to Reduce Unmet Need for Contraception in Uganda

This study will adapt the Game Changers peer advocacy training model for family planning context and pilot test the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of the intervention to empower female contraception users to advocate for contraception use among women in their social networks who have unmet need for contraception.

The investigators will conduct a pilot RCT of Game Changers for Family Planning (GC-FP) with 40 female modern contraceptive (MC) users (index participants) at one rural public clinic, with 20 randomly assigned to receive the intervention (in 2 groups of 10) and 20 to the wait-list control; enrollment and randomization will be stratified by age and relationship status. Each index will recruit up to 3 social network members (alters) with unmet need for MC (max. total=120). Data will be collected at baseline and month 6 from all participants; primary outcome is alter MC use at month 6.

Index participants:

Inclusion Criteria:

• MC user for past year

Social network member participant:

Inclusion Criteria:

• Not using MC, but reports trying to prevent pregnancy
• Know about the MC use of their referring index participant