Reproductive Life Planning for Women With Mental Illness

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Conditions studied: Psychotic Disorders, Mood Disorders, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic

In brief

Women represent the fastest growing population within the VHA. Many are of reproductive age and experience mental health concerns. Women with mental illness are at greater risk for unplanned pregnancy and poor pregnancy outcomes due to factors related to mental health and mental health treatment. Similarly, mental health concerns (e.g., impact of pregnancy on mental illness, psychiatric medications and pregnancy) can affect reproductive life goals and plans. Reproductive life planning (RLP) interventions that include considerations and concerns women Veterans with mental illness face are needed. The investigators adapted existing RLP materials to create an interactive, individualized, client-centered RLP intervention designed to help women Veterans with mental illness develop a mental health-informed reproductive life plan and reproductive life goals (RLP-MH). The current study aims to determine if the RLP-MH intervention is feasible and acceptable to women Veterans and if it increases engagement in behaviors to address RLP goals.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03969589

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

40

Starts

2019-07-01

Expected to finish

2021-02-28

Last updated by the study team

2022-04-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 40. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• chart diagnosis of:
• schizophrenia
• schizoaffective disorder
• bipolar disorder
• major depression
• PTSD
• current receiving mental health services at one of the recruitment sites

You may not qualify if…

• currently pregnant
• inability to have children
• e.g. infertility, hysterectomy, tubal ligation

Where it is running

• Baltimore VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, MD — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
• Perry Point VA Medical Center VA Maryland Health Care System, Perry Point, MD — Perry Point, Maryland, United States

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