Intrauterine Contraception (IUC) After Medical Abortion

Karolinska Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: IUC Insertion After Medical Abortion

Treatments: Other: Timing of IUC insertion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01537562

WIUC12

Details and patient eligibility

About

Today a large proportion of early abortions are medical, in accordance to the woman's choice. The main objective of the present study was to compare, in a randomised fashion, initiation of intrauterine contraception (IUC) at about 1 week versus 3 to 4 weeks post medical abortion with regard to expulsions and safety.

Enrollment: 129 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age above 18
• elective medical abortion up to 9 weeks (63 days) of amenorrhea
• general good health and
• good understanding of Swedish language.

Exclusion criteria

• pathological pregnancies or abnormality of the uterus
• complications after the medical abortion, such as on-going pregnancy retained gestational sac or endometritis

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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129 participants in 2 patient groups

Delayed IUC insertion

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients randomised to delayed, routine, insertion had their IUC inserted at 3-4 weeks (day 21-35 after mifepristone treatment

Treatment:

Other: Timing of IUC insertion

Early IUC insertion

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients randomised to early insertion had their IUC inserted on day 5-9 after mifepristone treatment.

Treatment:

Other: Timing of IUC insertion