Plan A Birth Control: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mobile Health Application for Contraception Information

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Contraception; Contraception Behavior; Mobile Applications

Treatments: Other: Mobile Health Application; Other: Health Educator Counseling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02234271

UCLA_IRB_14-000821

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of the investigators study was to design a comprehensive and medically accurate contraception counseling mobile health application and evaluate the effects of this contraception counseling application on the contraceptive methods that patients selected and their knowledge of that method.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18-45 years of age
• literate in English
• not at that time using a contraceptive method
• willing to switch to a new reversible contraceptive method
• currently sexually active with a male partner and
• intending to avoid pregnancy for at least one year

Exclusion criteria

• women not at risk for unintended pregnancy
• those who were pregnant
• seeking pregnancy within the next 12 months
• history of surgical sterilization or
• a current partner who had had a vasectomy
• using long acting reversible birth control method
• menopausal

Trial design

120 participants in 2 patient groups

Health Educator Arm

Active Comparator group

Description:

Health Educator for contraception information

Treatment:

Other: Health Educator Counseling

Mobile Health Application Arm

Experimental group

Description:

Plan A Birth Control - iPad based application for contraception information

Treatment:

Other: Mobile Health Application