I-CAN Uganda Effectiveness Trial

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Conditions studied: Contraception

In brief

This is a cluster-randomized controlled trial to determine the effectiveness of the community-based "I-CAN" intervention to improve agency in contraceptive decision-making and use in rural Uganda. Lay women will be trained to serve as peer mentors to other women of reproductive age in the community, using their own lived experience to provide support and information about contraceptive choices. Villages will be randomized to either receive the intervention or not. A household survey will be conducted at baseline before implementation activities begin and 24 months later. Interviews will also be conducted with mentors, participants, male partners of participants and other stakeholders. Researchers will compare preference-aligned contraceptive use (primary outcome), contraceptive agency, contraceptive method satisfaction, preference-aligned fertility management, and use of self-injectable contraception in villages with and without the intervention to determine effectiveness.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT07711717

Run by

University of California, San Francisco

People needed

1560

Starts

2026-10-13

Expected to finish

2028-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-07-23

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 49. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Woman
• Ages 18-49 years

You may not qualify if…

• Women who are not able to respond to the survey questions on their own
• Not usual resident in study village
• Not consenting to the survey

Where it is running

• Makerere University School of Public Health — Kampala, Uganda

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