Routine Follow-up Versus Self-assessment in Medical Abortion
Status
Completed
Conditions
Medical Abortion
Treatments
Other: Home self assessment of complete medical abortion
Details and patient eligibility
About
The main objective of the study is to optimize the routines for follow-up after medical abortion in order to give women more autonomy by reducing the number of consultations involved and to reduce the frequency of postabortal curettage.
This will be achieved by providing means for women for postabortal self-assessment with the use of a quantitative urinary hCG test.
Enrollment
929 patients
Sex
Female
Ages
18+ years old
Volunteers
No Healthy Volunteers
Inclusion criteria
- women requesting termination of pregnancy by means of mifepristone followed by home administration of misoprostol at < /=63 days of gestation, with no contraindication to medical abortion and self administration of misoprostol at home, and who have given their informed consent will be eligible for study recruitment.
Exclusion criteria
- women who do not wish to participate
- women who do not want home administration of misoprostol
- women who are unable to communicate in Swedish, Norwegian, English, Finnish or German and women with symptoms and signs of ectopic pregnancy
- minors (i.e. women < 18 years of age) will not be enrolled for the study.
- women seeking termination of pregnancy with no sign of a visible intrauterine pregnancy (i.e. visible intrauterine yolk sac).
Trial design
Primary purpose
Health Services Research
Allocation
Randomized
Interventional model
Parallel Assignment
Masking
None (Open label)
929 participants in 2 patient groups
Controls
No Intervention group
Description:
Routine follow-up at the clinic 2-3 weeks after the treatment
Home self test
Other group
Description:
Intervention
Treatment:
Other: Home self assessment of complete medical abortion
Trial contacts and locations
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