Determinants of Success, Characterizing the Facilitators of Integrated Abortion Provision (FAB)

University of New Mexico (UNM)

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Pregnancy Termination

Treatments: Other: Semi-structured interviews

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03181061

17-124

Details and patient eligibility

About

This national, qualitative study of physicians who provide abortion care aims to better understand the facilitators of abortion provision among generalist clinicians in OB-GYN and Family Medicine.

Full description

This is a nationwide qualitative study of 20 to 40 physicians who provide abortion services as part of their scope of practice. Providers will participate in a semi-structured interview using an interview guide that addresses 4 domains of interest including: (1) initiation of abortion services, (2) barriers to abortion provision, (3) facilitators of abortion provision and (4) acquired expertise and coaching for success.

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Practicing obstetrician-gynecologists and family medicine physicians who currently provide or in the past have provided abortion services (medication abortions, surgical abortions and/or induction abortions) as part of their clinical practice will be eligible for study participation.
• All providers who meet these criteria will be eligible regardless of providers' gestational age cutoff, abortion indication limitations and/or restrictions, or number of abortions provided.

Exclusion criteria

• Physicians who work solely at a designated abortion facility, e.g., Planned Parenthood, without an alternate practice site, or who provide only abortions, are not eligible for study participation.