Resolution of Uncertainty Through Testing: The Impact of Pregnancy Tests on Reproductive and Maternal Health Beliefs and Behaviors in Uganda
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 终止
- 入组人数
- 600
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Binary measures for the family planning take up
研究概览
简要总结
Given the high rate of delayed adoption of antenatal care (ANC), and high rates of unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion in Uganda, research on the period of time before confirmation of pregnancy is critical to understand underlying beliefs that guide behaviors ultimately important for maternal and neonatal health (UDHS, 2011; Hussain, 2013).
Home pregnancy tests - which now cost less than 10 cents each - have the potential to facilitate FP uptake and significantly improve reproductive, maternal and child health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, including Uganda. These tests are easy to administer, disposable, inexpensive, and have a low false positive rate. Yet, for women living in rural areas in sub-Saharan countries, these tests are typically unavailable outside of health centers or they are prohibitively expensive.
This study will investigate women's underlying beliefs about pregnancy status and examine how providing access to home-based pregnancy tests - thus facilitating earlier resolution of uncertainty of pregnancy status - influences such beliefs and decisions to take up family planning (FP) or seek appropriate pregnancy services.
The results will inform the design of a larger study in the future.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Diagnostic
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 35 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- Female
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Between the ages of 18-35
- •Live in the catchment area
排除标准
- •Currently attending school
- •End Survey if
- •Women in menopause
- •Women with sterilization
- •Women with husband/partner with sterilization
- •Women who do not understand what menstrual period is
研究组 & 干预措施
Pregnancy tests at baseline & follow-up
We offer free pregnancy test service at baseline and at follow-up survey.
干预措施: Pregnancy test at Baseline (Diagnostic Test)
Pregnancy tests at baseline & follow-up
We offer free pregnancy test service at baseline and at follow-up survey.
干预措施: Pregnancy test at follow up survey (Diagnostic Test)
Pregnancy tests only at baseline
We offer free pregnancy test service at baseline
干预措施: Pregnancy test at Baseline (Diagnostic Test)
Do Not Offer Pregnancy Test
Control group. No intervention is implemented.
结局指标
主要结局
Binary measures for the family planning take up
时间窗: At end line survey, half a year after intervention
Use of any modern family planning method, use of oral contraceptives, use of injectables, use of short-acting reversible methods, use of long-acting reversible methods. We will measure take up as binary variables. We will also conduct sub-group analyses among women who are not using modern family planning at baseline and among women who are using modern family planning at baseline
次要结局
- Binary measure of purchase of pregnancy test kit by price(At end line survey, half a year after intervention)