Pilot #2: The Woman-to-Woman Dissemination Project: Harnessing the Power of Social Networks to Increase IUC Use
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Acceptability of WhyIUD intervention to intervention participants
研究概览
简要总结
This study has two goals: 1) to test an approach to helping women who use intrauterine contraception (IUC) spread the word about this type of long-lasting, highly effective birth control method among their friends and family and; 2) to test ways of getting in touch with these women's friends and family so that investigators can track whether this approach is effective at spreading birth control information through social groups.
详细描述
Pilot of peer IUC intervention:
Investigators will assess the feasibility and acceptability of a low-cost intervention implemented at a clinic providing family planning care. The intervention was first piloted in the an earlier phase of this study (ClincalTrials.gov ID: NCT01965743) which is currently in the analysis phase. Based off of participant feedback from this first pilot, investigators have revised and optimized the intervention which investigators will be testing again here at a new clinic and with a new population.
New IUC users as well as experienced IUC users will be recruited as "dissemination agents" to provide information about the option of IUC to their peers. Ten to sixteen IUC users will be recruited from a family planning clinic to receive the intervention.The intervention which will be delivered by a clinic staff member to new or existing IUC users includes handing her a packet of pamphlets, encouraging her to sign up for a series of SMS messages, and informing her about the intervention's website. The content on the intervention across all media forms consists of a brief education about IUC and development of interpersonal skills for IUC users, including how to initiate conversations about reproductive health issues and their personal experience with IUC in social settings.
Investigators will conduct baseline and 3 month quantitative surveys as well as 3-month qualitative interviews of dissemination agents to asses the feasibility and impact of the intervention on IUC knowledge, attitudes and social communication practices. As described in more detail below, investigators will also enroll the social contacts of dissemination agents to measure the effect of the intervention on their IUC knowledge and attitudes.
At the completion of dissemination agent enrollment and intervention implementation in clinic, investigators will also conduct a focus group with clinic staff about the feasibility of implementing the intervention in the clinical setting.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 15 Years 至 45 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Dissemination agents:
- •Have an IUD placed for contraception at clinic visit or have existing IUD for contraception
- •Speak English
- •Age 15-45
- •Willing to disclose IUD use to friends and family
- •Willing to have research staff contact their friends and family to participate in study related to family planning
- •Social contacts:
- •Age 15-45 Speak English
- •Able to get pregnant
- •Ever sexually active with men
- •Acquainted with dissemination agent
- •Makes contact with study team within one month of dissemination agent's enrollment (baseline arm) or within one month of dissemination agent's 3 months follow up (follow up arm)
- •Lives in the United States of America.
- •Clinic staff:
- •Able to provide family planning care at clinic where intervention is being implemented.
排除标准
- •Dissemination agents:
- •Using IUD for reason other than contraception
- •Unwilling to disclose IUD use to any social contacts
- •Unwilling to allow research staff to enroll friends and family in study as social contacts
- •Do not speak or understand English
- •Social contacts:
- •Unable to get pregnant
- •Do not speak or understand English.
- •Clinic staff:
- •Not working at clinic at time of intervention.
结局指标
主要结局
Acceptability of WhyIUD intervention to intervention participants
时间窗: 3 months
Study staff will administer 3-month post-intervention surveys with participants to quantitatively assess their opinions of and engagement with the WhyIUD intervention. Staff will also conduct structured interviews with a selection of participants at 3 months to gather qualitative feedback on the intervention.
次要结局
- Feasability of snowball sampling procedure to obtain social network sample(3 months)
- Change in IUD-related knowledge among intervention participants(3 months)
- Change in IUD-related social communication among patient participants(3 months)
- Change in IUD-related attitudes among patient participants(3 months)
- Acceptability of WhyIUD intervention to clinic staff(1 month)