NCT00433004

Advance Supply of Emergency Contraception Compared to Routine Postpartum Care in Teens

A Pilot Randomized Control Trial of Advanced Supply of Levonorgestrel Emergency Contraception vs. Routine Postpartum Contraceptive Care in the Teenage Population

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 14 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This is a pilot randomized controlled trial to assess the effects of advanced supply of emergency contraception versus routine care in a teen postpartum population. The goals are to assess feasibility of recruiting and retaining postpartum teens; to obtain estimates of the prevalence of (use of Plan B, primary contraceptive continuation, unprotected intercourse exposure, and pregnancy rates), in postpartum teens given advanced supply of Plan B; to assess whether or not (lack of use of Plan B, contraceptive method non-continuation, and unprotected intercourse exposure), are surrogate markers for risk of unintended pregnancy.

Conditions

• Post Partum

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DRUG	Plan B (Levonorgestrel)	PP TEENS ARE RANDOMIZED TO PLAN B + ROUTINE CONTRACETIVE CARE VS. ROUTINE CARE ALONE. QUESTIONNAIRES ON HEALTH STATUS, SEXUAL HISTORY, AND CONTRACEPTIVE USE ARE COMPLETED AT STATED INTERVALS.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-02-01
• Primary completion: 2010-10-01
• Completion: 2010-10-01
• First posted: 2007-02-09
• Last updated: 2017-09-15
• Results posted: 2017-09-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States