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Gender Competency for Family Planning Providers: Facilitating Positive Couples' Communication and Cooperative Decision Making

Gender Competency for Family Planning Providers: Facilitating Positive Couples' Communication and Cooperative Decision Making is a 13-item module of a larger framework. This module assesses a provider's ability to facilitate positive couples' communication and cooperative decision making in their family planning service delivery.

Categories

Geographies Tested: Ghana,Uganda

Populations Included: Female, Male

Age Range: Adults

Items:

1. Differences in control between a woman and a man in a relationship influences how I talk about family planning with a couple.
2. I can explain contraceptive methods that can be used by women or men alone, and those that require a partner's involvement.
3. I should only ask a client about their partner if the client mentions them first.*
4. When a client does not know how to discuss family planning with their partner, I can help them practice doing so.
5. When clients approve, inviting sexual partners to counseling about family planning is important, even if they aren't married.
6. I can encourage a female client to talk with her partner about family planning without compromising her ability to make her own decision.
7. I find it difficult to guide a discussion between a couple so that both partners are given equal attention.*

Response Options:
Strongly agree - 4
Agree - 3
Disagree - 2
Strongly disagree - 1

*Items are reverse scored.

Scoring Procedures

The score of each individual item is added to create the total scale score. Score less than 22 are considered low gender competency. Scores 22-24 are medium competency and above 24 is high gender competency.

Original Citation

Andrinopoulos, K., McGuire, C., Namisango, E., Dako-Gyeke, P., Reisz, T., & Wisniewski, J. (2023). A provider self-assessment tool to measure gender competency for family planning services. https://www.data4impactproject.org/publications/gender-competency-tool-guidance/


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Scoring breakdown

Formative Research

Qualitative Research

Existing Literature/Theoretical Framework

Field Expert Input

Cognitive Interviews / Pilot Testing

Reliability

Internal

Test-retest

Interrater

Validity

Content

Face

Criterion (gold-standard)

Construct

KEY

Ease of Use

Readability

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Length

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