Impact of Video Intervention on Postabortal Uptake of Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) (LARC IUD)

The University of Chicago

Status: Completed

Conditions: Abortion

Treatments: Behavioral: Video intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01945385

13-0185

Details and patient eligibility

About

Primary: To compare rates of immediate postabortal LARC uptake between women exposed to a brief, theory-based, video intervention prior to standard contraceptive counseling and women exposed to standard counseling alone.

Secondary: To identify predictors of immediate postabortal LARC uptake among all participants including the role of:

• Demographic and reproductive health history variables
• Baseline decisional balance, self-efficacy and stage of change for contraceptive initiation

Full description

This is a randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of a brief video intervention on postabortal uptake of long acting reversible contraception.

Enrollment: 193 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 29 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Ages 18 - 29 Surgical abortion being performed the day of the study English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• Nonviable pregnancy Sexual assault Administered sedative medication Non English speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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193 participants in 2 patient groups

Video intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will view a seven - minute theory-based video of patient testimonials about their own postabortal LARC uptake.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients will view a 7 minute video about stress management delivered by local psychologist.