Cluster, Randomized Trial on Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Education and Training
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Contraception Behavior
In brief
The purpose of the study is to measure whether an education and training intervention for clinicians and contraceptive counselors on long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) will result in greater use of the methods among contraceptive patients.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01360216
- Run by
- University of California, San Francisco
- People needed
- 1500
- Starts
- 2011-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-07-14
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 25. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- This study involves two groups of human subjects: patients and staff at participating Planned Parenthood (PP) clinics in the United States.
- Patient participants are young women receiving contraceptive counseling at Planned Parenthood clinics and staff participants are the clinicians and health educators serving these women.
- Patients must be:
- Female;
- Age 18-25;
- Fluent in English or Spanish;
- Not wanting to become pregnant in the next 12 months;
- Sexually active in past 3 months;
- At risk of pregnancy;
- Received contraceptive counseling;
- Not pregnant;
- Willing to be contacted by telephone over the next 12 months.
- Clinic staff must be:
- Employed by a participating PP clinic; and
- Offer clinical care, counseling or education for abortion or contraception at the clinic. (This may include physicians, advance practice clinicians, nurses, social workers and health educators.)
- For clinics to be eligible to be study sites, they must:
- Not share staff
- Have no active LARC interventions ongoing
- Have >400 clients/year
Where it is running
- University of California San Francisco — San Francisco, California, United States
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