NCT00756314

Contraceptive Counseling Following an Abortion

Effectiveness of Contraceptive Counseling of Women Following an Abortion in Recife, Brasil: a Randomized Controlled Intervention Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 246 (actual)
• Sponsor: Instituto Materno Infantil Prof. Fernando Figueira · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 15 Years – 49 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether contraceptive counseling is effective on acceptance and use of methods in women following an abortion.

Detailed description

Contraceptive counseling is considered an essential component of post abortion care (PAC) programmes and it is recommended to prevent unintended pregnancies and unsafe, repeated abortions. Indeed, most maternal deaths related to unsafe abortions could be prevented by expanding and improving family planning provision.

Conditions

• Post Abortion Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Personalized contraceptive counseling	The intervention comprised a personalized and comprehensive (face-to-face) contraceptive counseling regarding to individual contraceptive history and needs. The counseling intervention was conducted by three trained gynecologists according to standard one day training.

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-07-01
• Primary completion: 2009-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2008-09-22
• Last updated: 2010-10-13
• Results posted: 2010-09-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil