Teenage Pregnancies in Refugee and Migrant Adolescents on the Thai-Myanmar Border

Teenage Pregnancy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Perceptions and Experiences of Teenage Pregnancies in Refugee and Migrant Adolescents on the Thai-Myanmar Border

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02890628
• Other study ID #: SMRU 1602
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 13, 2016
• Last updated: March 13, 2017
• Start date: September 2016
• Est. completion date: September 21, 2016

Study information

• Verified date: March 2017
• Source: University of Oxford
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is to explore perceptions, experiences, beliefs and knowledge around teenage pregnancy, motherhood, sexual and reproductive health, family planning and support structures adolescent refugees and migrants and to identify demographic, social and medical characteristics of study participants.

Description:

The study will be conducted as follows:

• 12-24 individual interviews with pregnant or postnatal adolescent girls (<20 years);

• 1 Focus group discussion of 6-10 non-pregnant female adolescents (<20 years);

• 1 Focus group discussion of 6-10 adolescent men (<20 years);

• 1 Focus group discussion of 6-10 Shoklo malaria research unit antenatal care staff;

Interviews and focus group discussion will be conducted with study participants who agree to participate in discussions about teenage pregnancy and motherhood, sexual and reproductive health. In-depth interviews and focus group discussion will be conducted in private meeting rooms in proximity to the antenatal clinic waiting areas. In-depth interviews and Focus group discussion will be co-facilitated by the principal investigator and a trained counsellor/midwife fluent in Karen, Burmese and English. Focus group discussion will be run separately for Burmese- and Karen-speaking participants and participants will be separated by subgroup. Focus group discussion will include 6-10 participants per group and for each focus group discussion to last between 45-60 minutes. Individual in-depth interviews will last approximately 60 minutes each.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 54
• Est. completion date: September 21, 2016
• Est. primary completion date: September 21, 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Years to 20 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

Inclusion criteria for adolescent mothers (subgroup 1) are:

• Aged 12 - <20 years

• Females

• Migrant or refugee status

• Myanmar nationality

• Any trimester of pregnancy or up to 12 month post partum

• Able and willing to participate and give informed consent

Inclusion criteria for non-pregnant female adolescents (subgroup 2) are:

• Aged <20 years

• Females

• Migrant or refugee status

• Myanmar nationality

• No past or current pregnancy

• Able and willing to participate and give informed consent

Inclusion criteria for adolescent men (subgroup 3) are:

• Aged <20 years

• Males

• Migrant or refugee status

• Myanmar nationality

• Able and willing to participate and give informed consent

Inclusion criteria for health staff (subgroup 4) are:

• No age restrictions

• Females or males

• Migrant, refugee or non-migrant status

• Any nationality

• Able and willing to participate and give informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any participant who is deemed by the researchers or health staff to be acutely physically or mentally unwell will be excluded.

• Participants who do not meet the age requirements, migration status or nationality requirements

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Teenage Pregnancy

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Thailand	Shoklo Malaria Research Unit	Mae Sot	Tak

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Oxford

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Thailand, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Thematic summary of adolescents' perceptions, experiences and beliefs in teenage pregnancy, motherhood, sexual and reproductive health, family planning and support structures adolescent refugees and migrants		up to 1 year
Primary	Descriptive summary of demographic, social and medical characteristics of study participants		up to 1 year
Secondary	Summary of antenatal clinic staff perceptions		up to 1 year