Patient-Centered Support for Contraceptive Decision-Making

Summary

The investigators have designed a tablet-based decision support tool to help women learn more about their birth control options and support them in choosing a method they are happy with. The investigators will test whether the decision support tool helps women choose a birth control method they can continue using successfully by having some women use the tool before their birth control-related visit to a health care provider, and some women not use the tool before their visit. The investigators will then follow up with all the women at four months and seven months after their visit to see if they are still using the birth control method they chose at the visit and how happy they are with the method.

Hypotheses:

1. Women who use the contraceptive decision support tool will be more likely to continue using their chosen method at 4 and 7 months follow-up, compared to women who receive usual care.
2. The contraceptive decision support tool will increase women's knowledge, choice of, and use of highly effective reversible contraception, compared to usual care.
3. The contraceptive decision support tool will decrease decision conflict, compared to usual care.
4. The contraceptive decision support tool will increase patient satisfaction with the clinic visit and with their method, compared to usual care.
5. Women who use the contraceptive decision support tool will have fewer unintended pregnancies during the follow-up period, compared to women who received usual care.
6. The contraceptive decision support tool will increase shared patient-provider decision making in contraceptive counseling visits, compared to usual care.
7. The contraceptive decision support tool will decrease provider frustration when providing contraceptive counseling and increase provider job satisfaction.
8. Women using the tool will be more likely to report use of any moderately or highly effective method of contraception at 4 and 7 months follow-up, compared to women not using the tool.

Conditions

• Contraception
• Contraceptive Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Contraceptive Decision Support Tool

The decision support tool: * Provides an educational session about different aspects of contraception * Elicits patient preferences about different aspects of contraception * Identifies potential contraindications to certain contraceptive methods * Allows the patient to view details about and compare available contraceptive methods * Suggests methods most appropriate based on the patient's preferences * Collects questions the patient may have for her provider * Generates a printout the patient can bring to her contraceptive counseling visit

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

  collaborator OTHER

• University of California, San Francisco

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Christine Dehlendorf, MD, MAS · University of California, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

15 Years

Max Age

45 Years

Sex

FEMALE

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2014-10-31

Primary Completion

2016-10-31

Completion

2016-10-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations