Improving Person Centered Care for Post Abortion Patients in Kenya
NCT ID: NCT04206514
Last Updated: 2020-01-14
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
371 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2018-08-27
2018-12-18
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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Peer Counselor
Participants receive personalized text messages and phone calls from a peer counselor- a women who had an abortion and was trained in post abortion care and PCC
Person Centered Care - Post Abortion Support
Post abortion phone based support
Nurse
Participants receive personalized text messages and phone calls from a nurse trained in post abortion care and PCC
Person Centered Care - Post Abortion Support
Post abortion phone based support
control
Participants receive the standard of care for post-abortion patients in Kenya.
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Person Centered Care - Post Abortion Support
Post abortion phone based support
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Had an Safe Abortion (SA)/Post Abortion Care (PAC) procedure at one of six private clinics that day
* Has her own cellphone that is WhatsApp compatible and will have access to this phone for the next four weeks
* Willing to receive receive short message service (SMS) messages and phone calls from an Marie Stopes Kenya (MSK) or Innovation for Poverty Action (IPA) professional
* Able to communicate in English and/or Swahili
* Willing and able to comprehend and give informed consent
* Willing to participate in a baseline survey immediately after providing consent
* Willing to be followed up by phone at two weeks and four weeks post procedure for a 15-minute survey at each time-point
* Has not already participated in this study
Exclusion Criteria
* Did not have an SA/PAC procedure at one of six private clinics that day
* Does not have her own cellphone that is WhatsApp compatible and will have access to this phone for the next four weeks
* Is not willing to SMS messages and phone calls from an MSK/IPA professional
* Is not able to communicate in English and/or Swahili
* Is not willing or is not able to comprehend and give informed consent
* Is not willing to participate in a baseline survey immediately after providing consent
* Is not willing to be followed up by phone at two weeks and four weeks post procedure for a 15-minute survey at each time-point
* Has already participated in this study
15 Years
49 Years
FEMALE
Yes
Sponsors
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Innovations for Poverty Action
OTHER
Marie Stopes International
OTHER
University of California, San Francisco
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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May Sudhinaraset, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of California, San Francisco/University of California, Los Angeles
Locations
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Marie Stopes International Kenya
Nairobi, , Kenya
Countries
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References
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Other Identifiers
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15-18008_Kenya Abortion
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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