Plan A Birth Control: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mobile Health Application for Contraception Information

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Contraception; Mobile Applications; Contraception Behavior
• Interventions: Other: Health Educator Counseling; Other: Mobile Health Application

• Registration Number: NCT02234271
• Lead Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles

Brief Summary

The primary objective of the investigators study was to design a comprehensive and medically accurate contraception counseling mobile health application and evaluate the effects of this contraception counseling application on the contraceptive methods that patients selected and their knowledge of that method.

Detailed Description

Not available

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-09
• Primary Completion: 2013-08
• Study Completion: 2013-08
• Study First Submitted: 2014-08-26
• Status Verified: 2014-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-09-04
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-09-04
• Study First Posted: 2014-09-09
• Last Update Posted: 2014-09-09

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 120

Inclusion Criteria

• 18-45 years of age
• literate in English
• not at that time using a contraceptive method
• willing to switch to a new reversible contraceptive method
• currently sexually active with a male partner and
• intending to avoid pregnancy for at least one year

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Exclusion Criteria

• women not at risk for unintended pregnancy
• those who were pregnant
• seeking pregnancy within the next 12 months
• history of surgical sterilization or
• a current partner who had had a vasectomy
• using long acting reversible birth control method
• menopausal

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Health Educator Arm	Health Educator Counseling	Health Educator for contraception information
Mobile Health Application Arm	Mobile Health Application	Plan A Birth Control - iPad based application for contraception information

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Contraception choice	Participants were followed for the duration of their clinic visit which was up to one day	Choice of birth control selected by participant was recorded into electronic database system and compared between the two groups.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Knowledge of contraception method chosen	Participants were followed for the duration of their clinic visit which was up to one day	A knowledge questionnaire was administered at the end of patient's visit and results were analyzed.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

West Medical Clinic; 🇺🇸 Los Angeles, California, United States