"Vasectomy: Right for Me?" Decision Support Tool
Addressing Factors Related to Disparities in Vasectomy
2 other identifiers
interventional
750
1 country
2
Brief Summary
The goal of this trial is to learn if a web-based decision aid designed to provide evidence-based information about vasectomy and other birth control options helps improve users' decision-making about birth control. The main questions it aims to answer are:
- Do people who use the decision aid have better knowledge about vasectomy?
- Do people who use the decision aid have lower conflict with their decision? Participants will:
- Use the decision aid (if they are assigned to the intervention arm).
- Answer survey questions about their knowledge, decision-making, interest in vasectomy, and healthcare navigation experiences.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started May 2026
2 active sites
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
February 27, 2026
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
March 5, 2026
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
May 1, 2026
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
April 1, 2027
ExpectedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
April 1, 2027
May 6, 2026
February 1, 2026
11 months
February 27, 2026
May 5, 2026
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (2)
Participant knowledge about vacectomy
Participant responses to 10 True/False items adapted from previously published studies of vasectomy knowledge and informed by in-depth interviews with men about vasectomy decision making. Items assess knowledge about vasectomy and alternative contraception options and will be coded as correct vs. incorrect, with "Don't Know" being coded as an incorrect response. The percentage of correct responses across the 10 questions will be calculated for each participant. The score range is 0 to 100%.
Up to 45 minutes
Participant decisional conflict in contraceptive choice
Assessed by participant responses to the low literacy version of the Decisional Conflict Scale (DCS). The DCS is a validated measure to assess participants' decisional conflict in medical decision-making. The DCS low literacy version includes 10 items about experience of conflict, with "Yes" = 0, "unsure" = 2 and "No" = 4. All 10 items are a) summed; b) divided by 10; and c) multiplied by 25. Scores range from 0 (no decisional conflict) to 100 (extremely high decisional conflict).
Up to 45 minutes
Secondary Outcomes (1)
Interest in vasectomy
Up to 45 minutes
Study Arms (2)
Decision Aid Arm
EXPERIMENTALParticipants will use the web-based decision aid.
Control Arm
NO INTERVENTIONParticipants will be asked to take their T1 survey directly after randomization, without using the decision aid.
Interventions
The vasectomy decision aid is a web-based decision aid designed to help men make informed and value-concordant decisions about vasectomy.
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Are assigned male at birth
- years of age
- Comfortable reading in English or Spanish
- Live in the United States
- Are considering vasectomy
- Have not had a vasectomy
You may not qualify if:
- Are not assigned male at birth
- Are less than 21 or more than 55 years of age
- Is not comfortable reading English nor Spanish
- Do not live in the United States
- Are not considering vasectomy
- Have had a vasectomy
- Once a racial or economic sub-group recruitment number has been reached, no other subjects fitting that ethnicity or income group will be enrolled.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (2)
Resound Research for Reproductive Health, a project of the Tides Center
San Francisco, California, 94129, United States
CONVERGE Toward Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, United States
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Sonya Borrero, MD, MS
University of Pittsburgh
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Kari White, PhD, MPH
Resound Research for Reproductive Health
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
- Purpose
- OTHER
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Professor of Medicine
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
February 27, 2026
First Posted
March 5, 2026
Study Start
May 1, 2026
Primary Completion (Estimated)
April 1, 2027
Study Completion (Estimated)
April 1, 2027
Last Updated
May 6, 2026
Record last verified: 2026-02
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Time Frame
- Publication of results will occur upon completion of the study. De-identified survey data will be made available within four years after the completion of data collection. No end date.
- Access Criteria
- De-identified participant data will be used for publication. Access to de-identified data may be granted to other investigators whose proposed use of the data has been approved by an independent review committee.
De-identified participant data will be used for publication. De-identified survey data will be made available, and NIH policies and procedures that permit and encourage open access to study data will be followed. The survey data will be de-identified and sent to the NIH program officer for distribution as a data set within four years after the completion of data collection. For outside investigators to fully utilize the survey data correctly, we will provide assistance whenever feasible. Additionally, the study statistician will annotate, document, and merge datasets generated from this proposal for data archiving to facilitate the use of study data.