Reproductive Life Plan-based Counseling With Men

Uppsala University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lifestyle; Gender Role; Fertility; Sexual Behavior; Pregnancy

Treatments: Behavioral: Reproductive Life Plan (RLP)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02736214

RLP-man-RCT

Details and patient eligibility

About

Many women and men in fertile age are at risk for sexual transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies, and have insufficient knowledge of health promoting lifestyle prior to conception. There is a need to increase awareness among people in fertile age about how sexual risk-taking and unhealthy lifestyle can negatively affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes. Previous studies on preconception health and care have mainly focused on women. The aim of our study was to investigate if Reproductive Life Plan-based counseling with a midwife could increase men's reproductive knowledge. The second aim was to evaluate men's experiences of the intervention.

Enrollment: 229 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Visitors at drop-in hours at two clinics testing for sexually transmitted infections

Exclusion criteria

• Non-Swedish speaking
• Female gender identity

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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229 participants in 2 patient groups

Lifestyle counseling

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group answered a baseline questionnaire in the waiting room and received the intervention (Reproductive Life Plan) in addition to standard care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Reproductive Life Plan (RLP)

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group answered a baseline questionnaire in the waiting room and received standard care.