Moderating Influence of Intervention Programs on the Relationships between Psychosocial factors and Therapeutic Behaviour of Obstetric Fistula Patients in North-west Nigeria: A Proposed Conceptual Framework

The strategic objective of this study is to make available a visual framework that graphically describes some selected constructs of intervention programs, psychosocial factors, and therapeutic behavior among obstetric fistula patients in northern Nigeria. Explicitly, this study proposed a research framework that, when authenticated, it will go further to assess the seeming association among the key constructs under study. In order to offer a solution to the research problem stated by this paper, this study will, in due course, employ mixed methods research design (pragmatism). The research consists of five basic constructs in the proposed framework that, when validated, the constructs will be used to evaluate the influence of intervention programs, combined with psychosocial factors in motivating obstetric fistula women to participate in therapy. In the proposed conceptual framework, the key constructs that strive for validation comprise therapeutic behavior, intervention programs, decision-making, the attitude of health personnel, and social support.