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

Contraception Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02234271
• Other study ID #: UCLA_IRB_14-000821
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 26, 2014
• Last updated: September 4, 2014
• Start date: September 2012
• Est. completion date: August 2013

Study information

• Verified date: September 2014
• Source: University of California, Los Angeles
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: University of California Los Angeles: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 120
• Est. completion date: August 2013
• Est. primary completion date: August 2013
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years to 45 Years

Eligibility

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

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Contraception
• Contraception Behavior
• Mobile Applications

Intervention

Other:
• Mobile Health Application
Mobile Health application for contraception information
• Health Educator Counseling
Counseling via health educator

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	West Medical Clinic	Los Angeles	California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of California, Los Angeles

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Contraception choice	Choice of birth control selected by participant was recorded into electronic database system and compared between the two groups.	Participants were followed for the duration of their clinic visit which was up to one day	No
Secondary	Knowledge of contraception method chosen	A knowledge questionnaire was administered at the end of patient's visit and results were analyzed.	Participants were followed for the duration of their clinic visit which was up to one day	No