An Intervention Delivered by App Instant Messaging to Increase Use of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Bolivia

Contraception Clinical Trial

Official title:

A Randomised Controlled Trial of an Intervention Delivered by App Instant Messaging to Increase Use of Effective Contraception Among Young Women in Bolivia

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02905526
• Other study ID #: 10999
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 14, 2016
• Last updated: February 6, 2018
• Start date: March 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: September 2017
• Source: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This randomised controlled trial will establish the effect a contraceptive intervention delivered by mobile phone app instant messaging on use of effective contraception in Bolivia. Woman aged 16-24 will be randomised to have access to Centro de Investigacion, Educacion y Servicios's sexual and reproductive health app (control) or the app plus 0-3 instant messages a day for 4 months (intervention). Participants will complete a questionnaire at baseline and 4 month follow-up.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 645
• Est. completion date: January 31, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: January 31, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 16 Years to 24 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Aged 16-24

• Own a personal Android mobile phone

• Live in El Alto or La Paz Bolivia

• Sexually active

• Not using the pill, implant, injection, intrauterine device or patch

• Want to avoid a pregnancy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cannot read Spanish

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Contraception

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Contraceptive instant messages
Contraceptive Instant messages

Other:
• Mobile phone app
Mobile phone app

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Bolivia	Centro de Investigacion, Educacion y Servicios	La Paz

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine	Centro de Investigacion, Educacion y Servicios, International Planned Parenthood Federation

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Bolivia, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Knowledge of effective contraception	Score on the knowledge measure	4 months
Other	Perceived norms in relation to using and communicating with partners about contraception	Responses to the perceived norms scales	4 months
Other	Personal agency in using and communicating with partners about contraception	Responses to the personal agency scales	4 months
Other	Intention to use effective contraception	Response to the intention scale	4 months
Other	Intervention 'dose' received	If participants read all, some, most or none of the messages and if they stopped the messages	4 months
Primary	Use of effective contraception	The proportion reporting current use of effective contraception (pill, intrauterine device, injection, implant, patch)	4 months
Primary	Acceptability of at least one method of effective contraception	The proportion reporting that at least one method of effective contraception is acceptable (pill, intrauterine device, injection, implant, patch)	4 months
Secondary	Acceptability of individual effective contraceptive methods	The proportion reporting that individual methods of effective contraception are acceptable (pill, intrauterine device, injection, implant, patch)	4 months
Secondary	Discontinuation of effective contraception	The proportion reporting use of effective contraception at any time during the 4 months (pill, intrauterine device, injection, implant, patch)	4 months
Secondary	Service uptake	The proportion reporting attending a sexual health service during the 4 months	4 months
Secondary	Unintended pregnancy	The proportion reporting that they became pregnant and did not want to become pregnant during the study	4 months
Secondary	Induced abortion	The proportion reporting having an abortion during the study	4 months