CompletedNot Applicable

Contraceptive Counseling in the Postpartum Period

United States179 participantsStarted 2015-03-01

Plain-language summary

This is a prospective randomized control trial in which we propose an intervention in the immediate post-partum period to educate women about contraceptive options, particularly long acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods with an aim of increasing the amount of women who choose a LARC method.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexFEMALE

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Inclusion Criteria: * Women giving birth at University Hospitals Case Medical Center * Patient of the Women's Health Center * Women delivering only one child * Women receiving contraceptive counseling from the nurse practitioner that cares for the postpartum unit Exclusion Criteria: * Severe neonatal complication at time of delivery (neonatal death, neonatal admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) except in cases of chorioamnionitis) * Severe maternal complication at time of delivery (patient requiring intensive care unit care, patient requiring hysterectomy at time of delivery) * Preterm delivery \<34 weeks

What they're measuring

Choice of contraceptive method

Timeframe: 24 hours post-intervention

Trial details

NCT IDNCT02380781

SponsorUniversity Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2017-12-01

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