Contraceptive Awareness and Reproductive Education
Status unconfirmed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Contraception, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Pregnancy
In brief
The purpose of this study is to increase the initiation and continuation of highly effective contraceptive use while incarcerated and upon release, as well as decrease unsafe sexual activity.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01132950
- Run by
- Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island
- People needed
- 400
- Starts
- 2009-02-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2010-09-09
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 35. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Age 18-35;
- Currently sexually active with men defined as having coital sex at least monthly in the past three non-institutionalized months;
- Expected place of residence after release in Providence County or within 15 miles of follow-up site;
- Willing to comply with protocol, follow-up and provide at least one locator;
- Fluent in English.
You may not qualify if…
- Inability to give informed consent secondary to organic brain dysfunction, not having own legal guardianship, or active psychosis or otherwise not able to participate in the intervention or assessments (deaf, blind, or impaired communication skills that impair ability to participate in computerize assessment or counseling);
- Pregnant or trying to become pregnant within the next year;
- Hysterectomy, bilateral oophorectomy, tubal ligation, IUD or Essure (coil), implantable contraceptive devices (Implanon) or other procedures which make it very unlikely to become pregnant;
- Women who are monogamous for more than one year whose partner has had a vasectomy;
- Housed in segregation as we will be unable to recruit them for the study
Where it is running
- Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island — Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States (enrolling)
- Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island — Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States (enrolling)
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