Clinical trial NCT03810716: Promotion of Family Planning Methods Through an Interactive Platform Offered in Growth and Development Control Services
Official title: Promotion of Family Planning Methods Through an Interactive Platform Offered in Growth and Development Control Services
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Women
Keywords: interactive platform
family planning
contraception
Lead sponsor: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-01-22
Enrollment: 176
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 49
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Quasi - experimental study design.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: Family planning and the use of contraceptive methods are of the main strategies to reduce maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality, because they can prevent unplanned pregnancies, teenage pregnancies and abortions in dangerous conditions. It is also a tool that contributes to development as it improves children's health, improves access to early childhood education, empowers women and contributes to reducing poverty as it improves economic conditions.

Currently the use of modern contraceptive methods has increased worldwide, in Latin America and the Caribbean the use of modern contraceptive methods has remained at 66.07% from 2008 to 2015. However, the number of women who do not want to get pregnant and that do not use a contraceptive method is still high - 214 million women of childbearing age in developed countries.

In our country according to the ENDES 2016 survey, the number of women who used a contraceptive method decreased by 0.7 percent compared to 2012, of which 54.3 percent used some modern contraceptive method and 21.9 percent some method traditional.

The unmet demand for family planning in 2016 was 6.0%, affecting mainly women from the lowest poverty quintile (7.4%) and those living in rural areas (6.8%).

Of the women who were surveyed and did not use a contraceptive method, 80.6% did not talk about family planning either at home or in a health facility in the last 12 months. Only 16.3% of non-users were women who attended a health facility and received information on family planning.

Through this study the investigators propose the design and evaluation of an interactive platform to promote modern contraceptive methods.

Detailed description: Sample Size: Sample size of 176 participants (interventional group=88, control group=88), it is possible to detect minimum differences of 5% to 20%.

Statistical analysis plan: The data collected will be entered into a database in Microsoft Excel, to be analyzed by the Epi Info statistical program. The qualitative variables will be analyzed by frequencies and percentages, the quantitative variables by relative risk.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Mothers of children who attend the service of growth and development who are of legal age
* Women who do not currently use some modern contraceptive method
* Women whose partners have not received voluntary surgical contraception

Exclusion Criteria:

* Teen mothers
* Illiterate women
* Women who currently do not have a partner
* Women who are currently gestating

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of mothers who attend the family planning service
timeFrame: one month
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of mothers who initiate a contraceptive method
timeFrame: one month after the intervention
measure: Satisfaction of the users about the interactive platform
timeFrame: immediately after the intervention
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Lima
country: Peru
facility: Cueto Fernandini
state: Los Olivos
city: Lima
country: Peru
facility: Los Olivos
state: Los Olivos
Study officials:
name: Suzzane S Minaya Romero, BSc
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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