Cell-phone Assisted Postpartum Counseling on the Use of Long-acting Reversible Contraceptives

Assiut University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Family Planning

Treatments: Device: Cell-phone

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03135288

CP-LARC

Details and patient eligibility

About

Unintended and closely spaced pregnancies are a major public health problem that affects not only the individuals directly involved but also the society indirectly. It increases the risks of infants with adverse outcomes such as preterm, low birth weight and small for gestational age. Pregnancy occurring within six months of the last delivery holds a 7.5-fold increased risk for induced abortion, a 3.3-fold increase in miscarriage and a 1.6-fold increased risk of stillbirth. But, use of contraceptive methods has been shown to reduce unwanted pregnancy, high fertility and maternal mortality rates.

Enrollment: 1,000 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women who deliver a live birth at greater than 28 week's gestation.
• Women desire birth spacing for more than one year
• Women who were holding and /or one of her family hold a cell-phone and accept to receive messages and phone calls to remind her with her contraceptive program

Exclusion criteria

• Women who refuse to participate in the study.
• Women aren't able to respond to the questionnaire due to their health status.
• Anticipation of difficulty of subsequent communication with the women
• Women with contraindications of using long acting reversible contraception ( contraindicated if intrauterine device or implant use)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Cell-phone assisted

Experimental group

Description:

will be advised that they are going to receive a reminder of their postpartum family planning visit 5 weeks after the delivery (one week before the scheduled visit) and a phone call 48 hours before the scheduled visit. They will also receive two follow-up phone calls to answer any questions and to remind them with the follow-up visits after insertion. Woman will be given a referral card to the outpatients' family planning clinic denoting her study group and serial number and with a specific date for postpartum family planning visits. They will be also provided with a cell phone number working 7 days a week to answer any query or questions regarding her family planning program.

Treatment:

Device: Cell-phone

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

will receive the same above adequate counseling with referral card but without any phone assistance