NCT01592058

Weight Change Among Users of Three Progestin-Only Methods of Contraception Over a 12-Month Time Period

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 427 (actual)
• Sponsor: Washington University School of Medicine · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 45 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to learn whether women who use progestin-only methods of birth control such as the contraceptive implant (Implanon), the levonorgestral-releasing IUS (Mirena), or depot medroxyprogesterone acetate(DMPA) will experience weight change compared to women using the non-hormonal copper IUC (ParaGard). The investigators primary hypothesis is that users of DMPA will gain excess weight and increase their BMI above the copper-IUC users; secondarily, the investigators will compare users' data in the LNG-IUC and ENG implant groups to the copper-IUC group.

Conditions

• Weight Change

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-06-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• Completion: 2012-05-01
• First posted: 2012-05-04
• Last updated: 2012-07-31

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States