I-CAN Uganda Effectiveness Trial

Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of the "I-CAN" Peer Support Intervention to Improve Contraceptive Agency in in Rural Uganda

This is a cluster-randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of the community-based "I-CAN" intervention to improve agency in contraceptive decision-making and use in rural Uganda. Lay women will be trained to serve as peer mentors to other women of reproductive age in the community, using their own lived experience to provide support and information about contraceptive choices.

Villages will be randomized to either receive the intervention or not. A household survey will be conducted at baseline before implementation activities begin and 24 months later. Interviews will also be conducted with mentors, participants, male partners of participants and other stakeholders.

Researchers will compare preference-aligned contraceptive use (primary outcome), contraceptive agency, contraceptive method satisfaction, preference-aligned fertility management, and use of self-injectable contraception in villages with and without the intervention to determine effectiveness.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Woman
• Ages 18-49 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• Women who are not able to respond to the survey questions on their own
• Not usual resident in study village
• Not consenting to the survey