Counselling intervention type | Consultation length | Provider time | Other staff time | Time efficiency | Initial cost to facility | Maintenance cost to facility | Ease of update | Standardised intervention | Tailoring to client | Impact on other provider performance | Ease of use | Ease of access to women and follow-up | Immediate contraceptive initiation | Provide time to women for reflection |
Digital decision-making tools | ↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑/↓ | ↑ | ↑/↓ | ↑ | |||
Provider training (counselling and other) | ↑/↓ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ||||||||
Structured counselling on side effects | ↑ | ↑/↓ | ↓ | ↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ↓ | |||||||
Telephone counselling | ↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑/↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑/↓ | |||
Video counselling | ↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑/↓ | ||||
Group counselling | ↓ | ↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑ | ↓ | |||||||
Antenatal/immediate postpartum counselling | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑ | |||||||
Postpartum counselling at 4–6 weeks | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ↓ | |||||||||
Pre-abortion counselling | ↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ||||||
Counselling during abortion consultation | ↑ | ↑ | ↑/↓ | ↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↓ | |||||||
Patient coaching | ↑/↓ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | |||||||
Systematic counselling | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓ | ↓ | ↑/↓ | ↓ | ||||||
Husband/partner counselling | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓ | ||||||||||
Community-based | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↑/↓ | ↓ |
Advantages and disadvantages as reported by study authors and assessed by systematic review authors. ↑ Increase. ↓ Decrease. Advantages in green and disadvantages in red. ↑/↓ Potential advantage or disadvantage depending on setting. Empty cells mean no advantages/disadvantages reported or not applicable.