Couples Fertility and Pregnancy Awareness (CFPA)

Universidade do Porto

Status: Completed

Conditions: Fertility; Decision to Get Pregnant

Treatments: Other: Health educational video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02813993

SFRH/BD/103234/2014 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

FPCEUP/RH2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Recent evidence has shown that young people that want to have children have low fertility knowledge. This study evaluates the efficacy of a video intervention on fertility knowledge, on changes in lifestyle and on the decision to start to get pregnant.

Full description

This study will compare the efficacy of a video intervention versus control (no video) in couples that intend to have children in the next three years. The couples will be randomized to the two groups. The video contains information concerning age-related fertility decline, fertility risk factors, the success of infertility treatments, and emotional consequences of childlessness.

Enrollment: 244 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 24 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Female member of the couples has between 24 to 40 years
• Childless couples trying to conceive or couples who desired to have children in the next 3 years
• Relationship length minimum of one year

Exclusion criteria

• Couples that already had achieved a successful pregnancy
• Couples with children

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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244 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

A five-minute video concerning age-related fertility decline, fertility risk factors, success of infertility treatments and emotional consequences of childlessness

Treatment:

Other: Health educational video

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention