Cluster, Randomized Trial on Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Education and Training (NCT01360216) | Clinical Trial Compass
CompletedNot Applicable
Cluster, Randomized Trial on Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Education and Training
United States1,500 participantsStarted 2011-05
Plain-language summary
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.
Who can participate
Age range18 Years ā 25 Years
SexFEMALE
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Inclusion Criteria:
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
What they're measuring
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Proportion of contraceptive patients choosing a LARC method