Contraception Perspectives in Adolescents in Haiti

Completed

• Conditions: Contraception
• Interventions: Other: Interviews/Surveys

• Registration Number: NCT05252052
• Lead Sponsor: Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City

Brief Summary

The overall goal of this study is to assess facilitators and barriers to contraception with a focus on long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) among adolescents and health care providers (HCPs) in rural Haiti. The investigator plans to accomplish the following objectives:

Detailed Description

Objective 1: Develop locally-informed surveys and in-depth interview guides, based on the ecologically-expanded Theory of Planned Behavior, to assess attitudes, social norms, perceived behavioral control, and intentions regarding contraception, with a focus on LARC, among adolescents and HCPs in rural Haiti.

Objective 2: Conduct a formative mixed methods study of attitudes, social norms, perceived behavioral control, and intentions regarding contraception, with a focus on LARC, among female adolescents (N=150 survey, 25-50 in-depth interviews) and HCPs (N=15; survey and in-depth interviews) in rural Haiti.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-03-22
• Study First Submitted: 2022-01-07
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-02-19
• Study First Posted: 2022-02-23
• Primary Completion: 2023-03-31
• Status Verified: 2023-07
• Study Completion: 2023-07-31
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-07-31
• Last Update Posted: 2023-08-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 200

Inclusion Criteria

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• Adolescents who are biologically female and have reproductive potential (14-24 years old)
• Adolescents who reside in the birthing clinic catchment area
• Health care providers, including nurse midwives, who work at the local birthing clinic and providers at the local hospital

Exclusion Criteria

-Subjects who are determined to have severe psychiatric illness or cognitive impairment (based on research team assessment).

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Health care providers in rural Haiti	Interviews/Surveys	Health care providers in rural Haiti
Adolescents 14-24 years old	Interviews/Surveys	Adolescents 14-24 years old

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Identification of facilitators and barriers to contraception use	Data collection will occur over one day for individual participants. Study data collection will occur over 18 months	The primary outcome is identification of facilitators and barriers to contraception use among adolescent participants based on responses to the eTPB domains described in Table 1. The investigator will also explore facilitators and barriers to contraception use among HCP participants.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Children's Mercy Hospital; 🇺🇸 Kansas City, Missouri, United States