LARC Forward Counselling (LOWE)

Kristina Gemzell Danielsson

Status: Completed

Conditions: Impact of Contraceptive Counselling on LARC Uptake and Unplanned Pregnancy

Treatments: Other: LARC forward structured contraceptive counselling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03269357

LoWe17

Details and patient eligibility

About

Training of health care providers and structured LARC forward counseling may contribute to increased LARC uptake. The hypothesis to be tested is that by introducing LARC forward counselling an increase in LARC usage will be the result as well as decreased unplanned pregnancy and abortion. It is expected that the results of this study will highlight the importance of LARC forward counseling and thus provide the evidence needed to train health care providers and increase access to LARC in youth clinics, midwifery clinics and for post abortion contraception.

Enrollment: 1,200 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• At risk for pregnancy (sexually active with men or anticipate becoming sexually active in the next 6 months).
• Do not desire pregnancy .
• No contraindications to LARC

Exclusion criteria

• Undergone tubal ligation or other sterilization procedure.
• Use of contraceptives for other purposes than contraception

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,200 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Other group

Description:

Clinics randomized to "intervention" will provide structured LARC centered counselling

Treatment:

Other: LARC forward structured contraceptive counselling

Routine counselling

No Intervention group

Description:

Clinics randomized to routine counselling