NCT01360216

Cluster, Randomized Trial on Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Education and Training

Cluster, Randomized Trial on Provider LARC Education and Training

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,500 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is to measure whether an education and training intervention for clinicians and contraceptive counselors on long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) will result in greater use of the methods among contraceptive patients.

Detailed description

Unintended pregnancy is extremely high in the United States among young women, and use of contraceptives with top-tier effectiveness, intrauterine contraception and implants, is low. Contraceptive providers in the US have low knowledge of current scientific evidence on LARC methods, and do not routinely include these methods in counseling patients at highest risk of unintended pregnancy. This intervention provides evidence-based education and hands-on training to clinicians and contraceptive educators in Planned Parenthood affiliated Title X clinics throughout the US on LARC methods.

Conditions

• Contraception Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	LARC education and training	A CME/CEU accredited Grand Rounds education and training session will be given to clinicians and contraceptive educators practicing in clinics assigned to the intervention arm. Clinicians will have hands-on training as well. The half-day session emphasizes evidence-based contraceptive counseling and provision.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-05-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-01
• Completion: 2013-08-01
• First posted: 2011-05-25
• Last updated: 2020-07-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States