Cluster, Randomized Trial on Provider LARC Education and Training
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Contraception Behavior
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
- Enrollment
- 1500
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Proportion of contraceptive patients choosing a LARC method
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 5 years ago
Overview
Brief 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.
Detailed Description
Unintended pregnancy is extremely high in the United States among young women, and use of contraceptives with top-tier effectiveness, intrauterine contraception and implants, is low. Contraceptive providers in the US have low knowledge of current scientific evidence on LARC methods, and do not routinely include these methods in counseling patients at highest risk of unintended pregnancy. This intervention provides evidence-based education and hands-on training to clinicians and contraceptive educators in Planned Parenthood affiliated Title X clinics throughout the US on LARC methods.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
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:
- •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;
Exclusion Criteria
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Proportion of contraceptive patients choosing a LARC method
Time Frame: Baseline
We are measuring the proportion of patients deciding to use a LARC method at intervention and control clinics in a patient cohort aged 18-25 years (n=1500). We are also measuring with clinic service statistics the proportion of contraceptive patients selecting LARC v. non-LARC methods during the 12 month-period before the intervention and the 12-month period after the intervention, to supplement the analysis with individual patient data.
Secondary Outcomes
- Unintended pregnancy(12 months)