NCT03775642

Debunking Myths About Contraceptive Safety Among Women in Kingston, Jamaica

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 225 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ohio State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The primary hypothesis is that the intervention video - based on strategies from cognitive psychology - can correct women's misinformation about long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and result in higher use of LARC. While there are no direct benefits to participants from being in the study, the research could benefit women in general by providing evidence to help prevent unintended pregnancy. Unlike many interventions that are not feasible for scaling up once shown to be effective in changing people's behavior, the proposed intervention has been carefully designed to impose a low burden to clinic staff and require few resources for translating to wider use. Thus, the investigators expect the intervention to have high potential for influencing clinical care and research for addressing the overall goal of reducing unintended pregnancy.

Detailed description

The investigators will conduct a randomized trial (RT) of consenting adult women (N=220) to test the effectiveness of the final intervention video. Participants in the RT will complete the "Enrollment Questionnaire" and then will be randomized to either watch a short video on 1) debiasing about LARC safety (intervention arm; n=110) or 2) vector control (control arm; n=110) (Figure 2). Participants then will have the option of receiving routine contraceptive services that follow standard care. After three months, trained interviewers will contact participants to administer the short "Follow-up Questionnaire" via telephone. To corroborate participant reporting of contraception use during follow-up, the investigators also will extract data on LARC use from participant medical records.

Conditions

• Contraception Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Intervention video	The intervention video will employ the debiasing strategies. It will avoid directly articulating contraception-related myths, but instead will provide a limited number of alternative explanations related to IUD and implant safety.
BEHAVIORAL	Control video	The video for the control arm will consist of an existing, public-use video on a non-contraception topic of similar duration

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-21
• Primary completion: 2019-09-05
• Completion: 2019-09-05
• First posted: 2018-12-14
• Last updated: 2020-04-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Jamaica