Video Counseling for Effective Postpartum Contraception

University of North Carolina (UNC)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Contraception

Treatments: Behavioral: LARC First Video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02438800

15-0665

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized clinical trial to evaluate if the addition of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) focused video-counseling during prenatal care increases uptake of postpartum LARC.

Full description

Eligible participants will be identified in the prenatal period and will be randomized to one of two groups. The control group will receive the standard of care contraceptive counseling during prenatal counseling. The intervention group will also receive the standard of care contraceptive counseling during prenatal care, but will also watch an evidence-based,12 minute LARC First video created by the CHOICE project which provides information on different contraceptive methods. All participants will receive information regarding access to free LARC methods in the postpartum period. All participants will be called at 12 weeks postpartum. Independent of randomization arm, they will all undergo a 5-minute survey by phone about contraceptive method choice and use.

Enrollment: 84 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• woman presenting for routine prenatal care visit at University of North Carolina (UNC) Resident Continuity Clinic
• least 18 years old
• fluent in English
• able to read to a third-grade reading level
• not planning sterilization for postpartum contraception
• at least 28 weeks gestation at time of enrollment

Exclusion criteria

• those who do not meet the previously outlined inclusion criteria
• those who are unable to provide informed consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

---

84 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard Counseling

No Intervention group

Description:

Women in this arm will receive standard contraceptive counseling routinely provided during prenatal care. All participants will receive information regarding access to free LARC methods in the postpartum period.

Video Counseling

Experimental group

Description:

Women in this arm will receive LARC First video-based contraceptive counseling in addition to standard contraceptive counseling routinely provided during prenatal care. All participants will receive information regarding access to free LARC methods in the postpartum period.

Treatment:

Behavioral: LARC First Video