Plan A Birth Control: Randomized Controlled Trial of a Mobile Health Application for Contraception Information

• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT02234271
• Collaborator: (none)
• Enrollment: 120
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Duration (Months): 11
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 10.9

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

The primary objective of the investigators study was to design a comprehensive and medically accurate contraception counseling mobile health application and evaluate the effects of this contraception counseling application on the contraceptive methods that patients selected and their knowledge of that method.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Mobile Applications; Contraception; Contraception Behavior	Other: Mobile Health Application; Other: Health Educator Counseling	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 120 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Study Start Date: Sep 1, 2012
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Aug 1, 2013
• Actual Study Completion Date: Aug 1, 2013

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
Active Comparator: Health Educator Arm Health Educator for contraception information	Other: Health Educator Counseling; Counseling via health educator
Experimental: Mobile Health Application Arm Plan A Birth Control - iPad based application for contraception information	Other: Mobile Health Application; Mobile Health application for contraception information

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. Contraception choice [Participants were followed for the duration of their clinic visit which was up to one day]

   Choice of birth control selected by participant was recorded into electronic database system and compared between the two groups.

Secondary Outcome Measures

1. Knowledge of contraception method chosen [Participants were followed for the duration of their clinic visit which was up to one day]

   A knowledge questionnaire was administered at the end of patient's visit and results were analyzed.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 Years to 45 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: Female
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• 18-45 years of age

• literate in English

• not at that time using a contraceptive method

• willing to switch to a new reversible contraceptive method

• currently sexually active with a male partner and

• intending to avoid pregnancy for at least one year

Exclusion Criteria:

• women not at risk for unintended pregnancy

• those who were pregnant

• seeking pregnancy within the next 12 months

• history of surgical sterilization or

• a current partner who had had a vasectomy

• using long acting reversible birth control method

• menopausal

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	West Medical Clinic	Los Angeles	California	United States	90095

Sponsors and Collaborators

• University of California, Los Angeles

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Aparna Sridhar, MD, MPH, University of California, Los Angeles

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: UCLA Women's Health Clinical Research Unit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California, Los Angeles
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02234271
• Other Study ID Numbers: UCLA_IRB_14-000821
• First Posted: Sep 9, 2014
• Last Update Posted: Sep 9, 2014
• Last Verified: Sep 1, 2014

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Sep 9, 2014