Understanding Women's Contraceptive Expectations at the Time of a First Trimester Surgical Abortion

NCT ID: NCT01807715

Last Updated: 2023-04-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Total Enrollment: 202 participants
• Study Classification: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2012-12-31
• Study Completion Date: 2013-02-28

Brief Summary

The investigators will conduct a voluntary anonymous survey at four separate Sacramento area family planning clinics. The investigators will ask the staff at each facility to offer a survey to all women 18 and older presenting to the clinic to have a first trimester (<12 weeks gestation) surgical abortion. Gestational age will be based on what the woman believes is her gestational age at presentation, before any evaluation in the clinic. Women who cannot understand or read the survey will be excluded. The investigators hope to implement the survey at these clinics for 3-4 months reaching a minimum of 200 women (based on a target population of 600 women receiving surgical first trimester abortions at these two clinics over a 3-4 month period with a 95% confidence interval).

Detailed Description

We will conduct a voluntary anonymous survey at four separate Sacramento area family planning clinics. We will introduce the research project to clinic staff, recruiting their support and participation, as they will be the main implementers. The survey will be offered to women in the waiting room before any pre-procedure counseling. We will include all women presenting to the clinic who are 18 years and older and planning to have a first trimester (<12 weeks gestation) surgical abortion. Gestational age will be based on what the woman believes is her gestational age at presentation, before any evaluation in the clinic. Women who cannot understand or read the survey will be excluded. We hope to implement the survey at these two clinics for 3-4 months reaching a minimum of 200 women so as to obtain an adequate power for our study. The brief survey will include a cover letter explaining the study and stressing the anonymity and confidentiality. The surveys will include an envelope in which to place completed surveys; the envelope can be sealed by the participant and dropped in a collection bin. This process will allow the data to be collected anonymously. The survey data will then be synthesized first by descriptive analysis, followed by chi-square and multiple regression analyses. A statistician in the University of California Davis Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology will help when necessary.

Conditions

Contraception; Abortion

Study Design

• Observational Model Type: COHORT
• Study Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

Study group

Women seeking first trimester surgical abortion

survey

Intervention Type: OTHER

Survey before procedure to obtain demographic information and contraceptive information

Interventions

survey

Survey before procedure to obtain demographic information and contraceptive information

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• seeking first trimester surgical abortion

Exclusion Criteria

• Women who cannot understand or read the survey

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Eligible Sex: FEMALE
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Sponsors

University of California, Davis

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Mitchell D Creinin, MD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

UC Davis

Melissa Matulich

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

UC Davis

Locations

University of California, Davis

Sacramento, California, United States

Countries

United States

References

Matulich M, Cansino C, Culwell KR, Creinin MD. Understanding women's desires for contraceptive counseling at the time of first-trimester surgical abortion. Contraception. 2014 Jan;89(1):36-41. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2013.09.013. Epub 2013 Sep 30.

Reference Type: RESULT

PMID: 24161475 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

352286

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id