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Psychosocial and Physiological Mechanisms in the Effect of Hormonal Contraception on the Female Sexual Desire

NCT00374387 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2011-03-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

75 heterosexual women are asked to use 3 different types of contraception (Nuvaring, low-dose combination pill, minipill), each during 3 months. On a monthly basis, questionnaires are filled out about sexual desire and psychosocial, relational en sexual parameters. Also the sexual desire of the partner is questioned. On a three-monthly basis, blood samples are drawn to determine changes in hormonal parameters (one sample per product period).

75 lesbian women are doing the same trial, but during an extra 3 months period, they are asked to have their natural menstrual cyclus as a control condition. Blood samples during these extra months will be drawn at the third or fourth day after start of the menses.

Conditions

  • Healthy

Interventions

DRUG

Nuvaring

DRUG

low-dose combination pill

DRUG

minipill

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders, Belgium

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital, Ghent

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Petra De Sutter, MD, PhD · University Hospital, Ghent

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
45 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-09-30
Primary Completion
2009-08-31
Completion
2011-03-31

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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