Debunking Myths About Contraceptive Safety Among Women in Kingston, Jamaica

NCT03775642 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2017B0412
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 225
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief 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.

Conditions

Contraception Behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Self-reported initiation of LARC (dichotomous variable for either IUD or implant use vs. neither use)

  Based on survey question on use of the IUD (y/n) and implant (y/n)

  within 3 months of enrollment

Secondary Outcomes (3)

• Self-reported belief about IUD safety

  3 months after enrollment

• Self-reported belief about implant safety

  3 months after enrollment

• Self-reported attitudes toward LARC-related bleeding patterns

  3 months after enrollment

Study Arms (2)

Intervention video

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention video will employ debiasing strategies to correct women's misinformation about the safety of the IUD and implant safety.

Behavioral: Intervention video

Control video

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

The video for the control arm will consist of an existing, public-use video on a non-contraception topic of similar duration.

Behavioral: Control video

Interventions

Intervention video BEHAVIORAL

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.

Intervention video

Control video BEHAVIORAL

The video for the control arm will consist of an existing, public-use video on a non-contraception topic of similar duration

Control video

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 25 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• present at the Comprehensive Health Centre;
• years of age; and
• sexually active (defined as ≥1 penile-vaginal act in past month);

You may not qualify if:

• known to be pregnant;
• sterilized;
• breastfeeding;
• currently using the IUD or implant; or
• want pregnancy in the next 12 months

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Ohio State University: lead
• FHI 360: collaborator
• Epidemiology Research and Training Unit of the Jamaica Ministry of Health: collaborator
• The University of The West Indies: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Epidemiology Training Unit

Kingston, Jamaica

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Contraception Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Reproductive Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Maria F Gallo, PhD

  Ohio State University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 11, 2018
• First Posted: December 14, 2018
• Study Start: November 21, 2018
• Primary Completion: September 5, 2019
• Study Completion: September 5, 2019
• Last Updated: April 16, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-04

Locations

JA (1)