Clinical trial NCT02836561: Contraceptive Choice at the Time of Uterine Evacuation
Official title: Contraceptive Choice at the Time of Uterine Evacuation: A Randomized Controlled Pre-visit LARC Educational Intervention
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Contraception
Lead sponsor: Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2016-07-19
Enrollment: 234
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: The goal of this project is to investigate whether a pre-visit telephone intervention could increase awareness of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) availability at the time of uterine evacuation.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 18 or older
* Scheduled for uterine evacuation
* Speaks English proficiently in order to understand the telephone conversation and the survey questions.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Previous participation in this study

Primary outcomes:
measure: Knowledge that LARC can start at uterine evacuation: Percentage of women who report that LARC methods are available to start at the time of uterine evacuation, as assessed on a questionnaire created for this study
timeFrame: Day 1: Questionnaire administered prior to the information session
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Intervention utility: Percentage of women who report that receiving information about contraception before their appointment was either very useful or somewhat useful, as assessed on a 4-point scale on a questionnaire created for this study
timeFrame: Day 1: Questionnaire administered prior to information session
measure: General LARC knowledge: Percentage of women with a high score (cutpoint to be determined) on a 10-question LARC knowledge scale developed for this study
timeFrame: Day 1: Questionnaire administered prior to information session
measure: Intent to use LARC: Percentage of women who report a LARC method as their preferred method of birth control, as assessed on a questionnaire created for this study
timeFrame: Day 1: Questionnaire administered prior to information session
measure: LARC stage of change: Percentage of women who report being somewhat or very interested in starting a LARC method, as assessed on a 4-point scale on a questionnaire created for this study
timeFrame: Day 1: Questionnaire administered prior to information session
measure: Uptake of LARC at time of uterine evacuation: Percentage of women who receive a LARC method at the time of uterine evacuation, as documented within the electronic medical record
timeFrame: Day 1: Data abstraction to be performed after the subject's day 1 visit complete
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Boston
country: United States
facility: Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
state: Massachusetts
Study officials:
affiliation: Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
name: Principal Investigator, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Roe AH, Fortin J, Gelfand D, Janiak E, Maurer R, Goldberg A. Advance notice of contraceptive availability at surgical abortion: a pilot randomised controlled trial. BMJ Sex Reprod Health. 2018 Jul;44(3):187-192. doi: 10.1136/bmjsrh-2017-200023. Epub 2018 May 18.