Improving Person Centered Care for Post Abortion Patients in Kenya

NCT04206514 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 15-18008_Kenya Abortion
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 371
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to understand the effect of a phone based post-abortion intervention on the experience of post-abortion care.

Conditions

Reproductive Health

Keywords

post abortion; person-centered care

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Person-Centered Abortion Scale Score

  Survey conducted with women: self-report of experiences of PCC. Possible range 0-100; higher the score, better the experience

  baseline

• Person-Centered Abortion Scale Score

  Survey conducted with women: self-report of experiences of PCC. Possible range 0-100; higher the score, better the experience

  2 weeks post-procedure

• Person-Centered Abortion Scale Score

  Survey conducted with women: self-report of experiences of PCC. Possible range 0-100; higher the score, better the experience

  4 weeks post-procedure

Secondary Outcomes (10)

• Post abortion family planning counseling

  baseline

• Post-abortion family planning uptake

  baseline

• Perceived social support

  baseline

• Perceived abortion stigma

  baseline

• Mental Health

  baseline

Study Arms (3)

Peer Counselor

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants receive personalized text messages and phone calls from a peer counselor- a women who had an abortion and was trained in post abortion care and PCC

Behavioral: Person Centered Care - Post Abortion Support

Nurse

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants receive personalized text messages and phone calls from a nurse trained in post abortion care and PCC

Behavioral: Person Centered Care - Post Abortion Support

control

NO INTERVENTION

Participants receive the standard of care for post-abortion patients in Kenya.

Interventions

Person Centered Care - Post Abortion Support BEHAVIORAL

Post abortion phone based support

Nurse; Peer Counselor

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 15 Years - 49 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• Women of reproductive age
• Had an Safe Abortion (SA)/Post Abortion Care (PAC) procedure at one of six private clinics that day
• Has her own cellphone that is WhatsApp compatible and will have access to this phone for the next four weeks
• Willing to receive receive short message service (SMS) messages and phone calls from an Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK) or Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA) professional
• Able to communicate in English and/or Swahili
• Willing and able to comprehend and give informed consent
• Willing to participate in a baseline survey immediately after providing consent
• Willing to be followed up by phone at two weeks and four weeks post procedure for a 15-minute survey at each time-point
• Has not already participated in this study

You may not qualify if:

• Is not a women of reproductive age
• Did not have an SA/PAC procedure at one of six private clinics that day
• Does not have her own cellphone that is WhatsApp compatible and will have access to this phone for the next four weeks
• Is not willing to SMS messages and phone calls from an MSK/IPA professional
• Is not able to communicate in English and/or Swahili
• Is not willing or is not able to comprehend and give informed consent
• Is not willing to participate in a baseline survey immediately after providing consent
• Is not willing to be followed up by phone at two weeks and four weeks post procedure for a 15-minute survey at each time-point
• Has already participated in this study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of California, San Francisco: lead
• Innovations for Poverty Action: collaborator
• Marie Stopes International: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Marie Stopes International Kenya

Nairobi, Kenya

Location

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Study Officials

• May Sudhinaraset, PhD

  University of California, San Francisco/University of California, Los Angeles

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 18, 2019
• First Posted: December 20, 2019
• Study Start: August 27, 2018
• Primary Completion: December 18, 2018
• Study Completion: December 18, 2018
• Last Updated: January 14, 2020

Record last verified: 2020-01

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

KE (1)