A Trial of Group Versus Individual Family Planning Counseling in Ghana (GCFP)

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Contraception

Treatments: Behavioral: Individual family planning counseling; Behavioral: group family planning counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00814411

GCFP

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study uses a randomized, noninferiority design to determine whether group family planning counseling is as effective as individual family planning counseling among gynecological patients with unmet need at two teaching hospitals in Ghana.

Enrollment: 648 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years of age and older
• fertile
• desires to delay pregnancy for at least 12 months

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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648 participants in 2 patient groups

Group Counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Group family planning counseling

Treatment:

Behavioral: group family planning counseling

Individual Counseling

Active Comparator group

Description:

Individual family planning counseling with gynecological patients who have unmet need

Treatment:

Behavioral: Individual family planning counseling