Contraceptive Counseling Following an Abortion (APA)

Instituto Materno Infantil Prof. Fernando Figueira

Status: Completed

Conditions: Post Abortion Care

Treatments: Behavioral: Personalized contraceptive counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00756314

APA-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether contraceptive counseling is effective on acceptance and use of methods in women following an abortion.

Full description

Contraceptive counseling is considered an essential component of post abortion care (PAC) programmes and it is recommended to prevent unintended pregnancies and unsafe, repeated abortions. Indeed, most maternal deaths related to unsafe abortions could be prevented by expanding and improving family planning provision.

Enrollment: 246 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 15 to 49 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Within the first 10 days (plus or minus 5 days) after an abortion
• Live in Recife or whereabouts in Recife(Brazil)

Exclusion criteria

• Clinical diagnosis of Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
• Women HIV positive
• Psychiatric pathology

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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246 participants in 2 patient groups

Personalized contraceptive counseling

Experimental group

Description:

All 123 allocated women for the intervention group received personalized counseling (face-to-face) and the contraceptive method chosen for free by a specialized trained doctor in family planning.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Personalized contraceptive counseling

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

All 123 women allocated to control group received a standard care available at IMIP.Standard care is comprised of educational group counseling by specialized nursing staff in family planning discussing about contraceptive methods and side effects

Treatment:

Behavioral: Personalized contraceptive counseling