Table 3.

Summary of behaviour change techniques using Briscoe and Aboud’s [7] categories

Study	Outcomes	Effectiveness	Observed behaviour	Techniques of behaviour change
				Information	Performance	Problem solving	Social support	Materials	Media	Male partner involvement/participation
Bashour et al. 2008	Contraceptive uptake	Intervention- 37 %;40 % and 42 % across arms	No significant difference between arms. Self-reported	Health education	-	Discussion of problems	-	-	-	-
Terefe and Larson 1993	Contraceptive use	Intervention 47 %,control 33 %	Contraceptive use and continuation	Health education	-	-	-	If requested, pills and condoms	-	Couple administered information
Stephenson et al. 2011	Modern contraceptive uptake and switching	baseline use 21.5 %, after intervention-93.6 %	Uptake of contraceptives, switching and addition if using condoms only	Information	-	-	-	If requested, pills, injectables, Norplant	Video, Print media	Couple administered intervention
Male motivator project, Shattuck et al. 2011	Family planning uptake	intervention-78 %, control-59 %	Self-reported	Information from peers	-	-	Peers	-	-	Male partner only administered intervention
Bolam et al. 1998 postnatal health education	Uptake of FP services or contraceptive use, Two different outcomes, self-reported	intervention-20 %, control-14 %	Self-reported	Information on importance of FP, location of nearest clinic, choice of methods.	-	-	-	-	Cloth flip charts developed by local artist.	-
Lutalo et al. 2010	Contraceptive use prevalence	intervention- 23 %, control-20 %	Contraceptive use and uptake	Information at meetings.	-	-	Opinion leaders and certified users of FP, volunteers chosen by communities	Provision of pills, condoms	Videos, role play, drama, IEC material- leaflets, booklets and posters	-