Table 3 Training schedule for health workers
Time | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
8:30–9:00 am | Registration and introductions | Recap | Recap | Recap | Recap | Recap |
9:00–9:30 am | Pre-course questionnaire | High-risk pregnancies | Implant—insertion (including practice on models) | Participants practice insertion and removal of IUD on models | 21: gender-based violence and role-plays | Clinical practicum |
9:30–10:00 am | Introduction to the ACCU project and this course | Birth planning | ||||
10:00–10:30 am | General counselling skills | Role-plays on birth planning and couples’ counselling | Implant—follow-up, management of side effects | |||
Health break | ||||||
11:00–11:30 am | The REDI counselling framework | Role plays on birth planning and couples’ counselling | Implant removal | Clinical practicum | Clinical practicum | 21: records management |
11:30 am 12:00 nn | Couples’ counselling skills and self-awareness exercise | Postpartum family planning and concepts | Practice implant removal on models | |||
12:00–1:00 pm | Barriers to uptake of PPFP | PPIUD assessment | Post-course questionnaire | |||
Lunch | ||||||
2:00–3:00 pm | Role-play—practice | PPFP methods overview | Role-play—practice | Clinical practicum | Clinical practicum | Feedback on the course questionnaire |
3:00–4:00 pm | Forming alliances and directing communication; 6: mediation skills | Implant—assessment and role-play | PPIUD insertion | Role-play practice | Feedback and discussion on lessons learnt from clinical practicum and challenges | Post-course evaluation ACCU study administration Closure |
4:00–4:50 pm | Solution-focussed model of couples’ counselling | Health education and films | PPIUD follow-up, removal, post-insertion care | |||
4:50–5:00 pm | Daily evaluation | |||||