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Randomized Controlled Trial of Structured Contraceptive Counseling in Adult Women

NCT00746993 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 250

Last updated 2012-12-12

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Summary

In the United States, highly effective methods of birth control are often not used. Healthcare providers use birth control counseling and patient education as ways to increase the usage of birth control. However, little evidence exists to show that patient education and birth control counseling changes birth control use.

We want to evaluate the effectiveness of using a uniform set of birth control information to provide birth control education to women having an early pregnancy termination. The counselors will allow the clients to both read as well as hear the information. We propose to evaluate whether this counseling will lead to 1) more women choosing highly effective nonpermanent birth control methods and 2) more women continuing to use these methods for a longer time.

Women in the study will complete a questionaire about their health. Half of them will have the structured counseling and half will have the routine counseling currently offered to women as a part of their routine care. We will contact all study participants with a telephone call three months and six months later to have a 10 minute conversation about what birth control they are using.

Conditions

  • Contraception

Interventions

OTHER

Structured contraceptive counseling

Uniform set of visual information about contraception which a counselor will read out loud with each participant and answer questions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Carolyn Westhoff, MD, MSc · Columbia University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-10-31
Primary Completion
2009-07-31
Completion
2010-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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