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Filter by:Does the addition of cervical lidocaine injections and valium to the current practice result in decreased reported pain with tenaculum placement, IUD insertion, and post procedural discomfort? The current practice is ibuprofen alone or no medication.
To evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of group contraceptive counseling on family planning knowledge acquisition, service satisfaction, method uptake and continuation among a group of resettled African refugee women.
Recent research suggests that women with substance use disorders may be at a higher risk of unintended pregnancy. There is a paucity of interventions specifically focused on this population. Through using mixed methods, this study proposes to develop a brief peer-led intervention (based on the Health Belief Model) to prevent unintended pregnancies among women entering opioid medication-assisted treatment; to assess acceptability, feasibility and the initial efficacy of the behavioral intervention; and to conduct exploratory analyses to identify the Health Belief Model constructs that are most influential on use of long-acting reversible contraception methods. Future research would include testing the intervention in a larger scale trial and with other populations.
The purpose of this study is to determine whether delivery of SpeakOut, a behavioral intervention to increase social communication about long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods among adolescents, is associated with increased uptake of LARC methods among the social contacts of SpeakOut recipients. The investigators will conduct a cluster randomized controlled trial of SpeakOut with adolescent LARC users and their female peers. Over three years, SpeakOut will be implemented in eight partner clinics. IUD and implant users aged 15 to 19 who attend appointments at participating clinics will be invited to enroll in the evaluation study as "primary" participants and receive either SpeakOut or a control intervention about alcohol use. The social contacts of primary participants will be asked to enroll in the study as "secondary" participants. The study's primary outcome will be the proportion of sexually-active secondary participants who initiate use of a LARC method within 9 months of study enrollment.
Meeting women's need for postpartum family planning is has been acknowledged as a global priority in maternal and child health. The prevention of unintended pregnancies in sub-Saharan African countries, which carry the highest global burdens of maternal mortality and HIV infection, is projected to substantially decrease maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Many barriers to contraceptive uptake exist, both within and outside of the postpartum time period, and include socio-cultural, economic, and supply-side factors. Furthermore, while the importance of engaging men in family planning programs has been acknowledged for decades, few interventions have succeeded in increasing male involvement in family planning while maintaining a focus on women's empowerment. Innovative approaches to meeting the family planning needs of women and couples are urgently needed. Public health interventions are increasingly incorporating mobile health (mHealth) approaches using short message service (SMS) technology in low-income countries, approaches that have demonstrated benefit among various reproductive health outcomes. The investigators hypothesize that personalized, bidirectional SMS dialogue with individual women and couples will increase postpartum contraceptive uptake, thereby decreasing unmet need for family planning in Kenya. The investigators have collaborated with the University of Washington (UW) Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) along with Kenyan telecommunication providers to develop a hybrid messaging system that allows for innovative bidirectional SMS messaging. This system has been used successfully in maternal child health (MCH) clinics in Kenya. In qualitative research, women in Kenya have expressed a strong desire for mHealth support to provide additional education, counseling and reminders to supplement counseling by health workers. The investigators propose a randomized controlled trial (RCT) comparing the effects of bidirectional SMS dialogue vs. control on highly effective contraceptive use at 6 months postpartum among HIV negative women and couples in Nyanza Province, Kenya. Data from this RCT and accompanying qualitative study will contribute to innovative, scale-able strategies to address unmet need for contraception and increase male involvement in family planning.
Participating investigators will locate all IUB B insertions conducted at their facility at least 12 month prior the initiation of study data collection. The study is composed of 2 parts. Part one is collecting data out of patient's medical record which is accessible only to the doctor. This data is mostly demographic. Part two of the study comprises a phone call to the patients done by the doctor or by authorized site personnel. In the phone call the study purpose will be explained to the patient and a patient consent will be required. After the patients consent to participate, the doctor will ask the patient the questions defined in the study protocol regarding her experience during the time since the IUB SCu300B's insertion. A total of 200 eligible subjects will be invited to participate in the study. Informed Consent Form will be signed and sent to the investigator, applicable CRFs will be completed by the investigator or authorized site personnel. The patient questionnaires will be asked on the telephone and entered directly into the CRF by the investigator or authorized site staff (CRF = source document). Also the physician´s questionnaire will be directly completed in the CRF by the investigator (CRF = source document). All other clinical data will be transcribed to the CRF from the medical patient records (patient records = source document). There are no planned patient visits to the doctor's office for study purposes. If the patient visits the physician´s office as part of the clinical routine, the study procedures can also be performed directly at the site instead of telephone contacts.
Currently there are approximately 400 women of reproductive age enrolled in outpatient monitoring of warfarin therapy through AMS. The investigators do not have any data on the percentage of women who are using family planning, but anecdotally the providers report that it is very low. The investigators believe that an educational intervention with an emphasis on the safest and most effective methods, long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), aimed specifically toward women with medical conditions requiring anticoagulation, combined with on-site provision of LARC can improve uptake of these methods. Ultimately, the use of the most effective methods of contraception will prevent unplanned pregnancy and the unnecessary maternal morbidity and mortality associated with high-risk pregnancies in women with these conditions.
The current postpartum care model of a single visit 4-6 weeks after delivery does not optimally address contraceptive needs. By this visit, many women have resumed sexual activity, potentially putting them at risk for unintended and rapid repeat pregnancy. In addition, many women with pregnancy-related Medicaid lose insurance coverage at this time, making it difficult to obtain long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) if desired. Therefore, an earlier postpartum visit may remove barriers to improve access to LARC thereby, reducing unintended and rapid repeat pregnancy. Our primary objective is to determine whether an additional 3-week postpartum visit, compared to usual postpartum care, will affect the initiation of LARC by 6 weeks postpartum.
To compare the efficacy of intrauterine lidocaine and oral naproxen sodium on discomfort and pain of patients undergoing intrauterine device insertion.
Right For Me is a study that aims to improve the conversations patients and health care providers have about birth control. Right For Me will test two different strategies for improving these conversations. The first strategy is to give patients a video to watch that encourages them to ask three specific questions in their health care visit, as well as a prompt card that reminds them of the three questions. The second strategy is to give health care providers a set of decision aids that describe available birth control methods, as well as training in how to use them with patients during the health care visit. Right For Me will test whether introducing one or both of these strategies leads to better conversations than providing health care as usual.