Contraception and Mental Health: Are we Doing Enough?
Mental Health and Contraception- Are we Doing Enough? A Study Exploring the Current Practice of Providing Contraceptive Advice by Mental Health Professionals and Service User Experience
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observational
150
1 country
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Brief Summary
The study seeks to determine current practices and perspectives of contraceptive advice of both service users and professionals. It aims to examine 1) the experiences of female service users of reproductive potential with mental health conditions of contraceptive advice from mental health professionals and 2) the current practice of providing contraceptive advice by mental health professionals.
Trial Health
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Started Feb 2021
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
February 9, 2021
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
June 1, 2022
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
May 3, 2023
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
February 1, 2025
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
February 1, 2025
CompletedMay 3, 2023
April 1, 2023
4 years
June 1, 2022
April 19, 2023
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (2)
Service user experience- online survey - designed by investigators
To examine if female service users of childbearing age under the care of mental health services are receiving adequate advice on contraception.
Sep 2022
Mental health professionals experience - online survey- designed by investigators
To examine the knowledge, practices and attitudes of mental health professionals in providing advice regarding contraception.
Sep 2022
Study Arms (2)
Female service users of childbearing age
Contraception Advice Experiences Survey - using a self-report questionnaire of female service users.
Mental health care professionals
Contraception in Mental Health Survey - self-report questionnaire of professionals' current practices, attitude and knowledge
Eligibility Criteria
This will be a two-armed study sampling service user of childbearing age receiving SABP mental health care services and mental health care professionals. The study will seek to recruit patients from inpatient units and community mental health teams from Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation and Mental health care professionals from the Trust.
You may qualify if:
- Service Users
- Female aged between 18 and 50 years of age.
- Under SABP mental health services
- Diagnosed DSM IV mental health condition.
- Capacity to give informed consent.
- Professionals
- Doctors, nursing staff Band 6 or above, non-medical prescribers and care- coordinators.
- Employed by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation
You may not qualify if:
- Service Users
- Service users under specialist services such as eating disorders, perinatal services, substance misuse services.
- Service users under Child and Adolescent Mental Health services and Learning Disability Mental Health Services.
- Lacking capacity to consent.
- Under 18 or over 50 years of age
- Service users detained under the Mental Health Act in the inpatient unit or under community treatment order(CTO) in the community.
- Professionals
- Mental health professionals not employed by Surrey \& Borders Partnership Foundation NHS Trust
- Mental health professionals not working in Working Age Adult Services.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust
Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 7AD, United Kingdom
Related Publications (5)
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PMID: 24315064RESULTHenshaw, C & Protti, C (2010) Addressing the sexual and reproductive health needs of women who use mental health services, and Advances in psychiatric treatment Vol 16, 272 - 278.
RESULTHoward LM, Megnin-Viggars O, Symington I, Pilling S; Guideline Development Group. Antenatal and postnatal mental health: summary of updated NICE guidance. BMJ. 2014 Dec 18;349:g7394. doi: 10.1136/bmj.g7394. No abstract available.
PMID: 25523903RESULT
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Josie Jenkinson, MRCPsych
Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Observational Model
- OTHER
- Time Perspective
- CROSS SECTIONAL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
June 1, 2022
First Posted
May 3, 2023
Study Start
February 9, 2021
Primary Completion
February 1, 2025
Study Completion
February 1, 2025
Last Updated
May 3, 2023
Record last verified: 2023-04
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will not share