Contraceptive Counseling in the Postpartum Period

University Hospitals (UH)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postpartum Contraceptive Counseling

Treatments: Behavioral: Information in the form of a video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02380781

11-14-40

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective randomized control trial in which we propose an intervention in the immediate post-partum period to educate women about contraceptive options, particularly long acting reversible contraception (LARC) methods with an aim of increasing the amount of women who choose a LARC method.

Full description

Eligible participants will be identified in the post-partum period and will be randomized to one of two groups. The control group will receive the standard of care contraceptive counseling which includes any prenatal counseling they received as well as information from the nurse practitioner that rounds on them in the post-partum period. The intervention group will also receive the standard of care contraceptive counseling but will also watch a 10 minute video created by the CHOICE project which counsels on different contraceptive options. Both groups will fill out a pre-intervention questionnaire as well as a post-intervention questionnaire 24hrs later. The primary outcome will be which type of contraception each woman chooses. The secondary outcomes will include determining if the women come to their post-partum visits as well as if they get the method of contraception they chose on the post-partum floor.

Enrollment: 179 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Women giving birth at University Hospitals Case Medical Center
• Patient of the Women's Health Center
• Women delivering only one child
• Women receiving contraceptive counseling from the nurse practitioner that cares for the postpartum unit

Exclusion criteria

• Severe neonatal complication at time of delivery (neonatal death, neonatal admission to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) except in cases of chorioamnionitis)
• Severe maternal complication at time of delivery (patient requiring intensive care unit care, patient requiring hysterectomy at time of delivery)
• Preterm delivery <34 weeks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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179 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients will receive current standard postpartum contraceptive counseling.

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Patients will receive current standard postpartum contraceptive counseling and will be shown a 10 minute video from the CHOICE project which outlines the different contraceptive options

Treatment:

Behavioral: Information in the form of a video