Simplified Medical Abortion Follow-Up

Gynuity Health Projects

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Abortion; Pregnancy Tests

Treatments: Behavioral: Home-based follow-up with SQPT

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02524990

1024

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this operations research study is to evaluate women's interest in and compliance with using a semiquantitative multi-level dipstick pregnancy test at home for medical abortion follow-up.

Enrollment: 53 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 11 to 56 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• She has been determined by the site investigator or designee to be fully eligible for medical abortion with mifepristone followed by misoprostol according to the site's standard criteria;
• She is willing to use the semiquantitative pregnancy test at home;
• She is wiling and able to comply with the study procedures;
• She speaks and reads English;
• She has signed the study informed consent form.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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53 participants in 1 patient group

Home-based follow-up with SQPT

Experimental group

Description:

For the intervention, a semiquantitative pregnancy test (SQPT) will be performed at the health center before the participants take mifepristone, and again two weeks later by the participants, at home. Study staff will call the participants at two weeks to follow-up with the participants.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Home-based follow-up with SQPT