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Last refreshed on: 4 May 2015
Main ID:  NCT02416687
Date of registration: 07/04/2015
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University of Sao Paulo
Public title: Etonogestrel Implant and Postpartum Insertion
Scientific title: Immediate Post-partum Initiation of Etonogestrel-releasing Implant: a Randomized Controlled Trial on Breastfeeding Impact
Date of first enrolment: March 2014
Target sample size: 24
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02416687
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor)  
Phase:  Phase 4
Countries of recruitment
Brazil
Contacts
Name:     Carolina S Vieira, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  University of Sao Paulo
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Postpartum women aged 18 years or older who agreed to use the ENG implant as a
contraceptive method,

- Body mass index (BMI) <30 kg/m2,

- Women without contraindication to breastfeeding,

- Women whose newborns were healthy, without malformations, born at term (gestational
age = 37 weeks), with appropriate weight for gestational age and with normal sucking
ability, were included.

- The subjects had to live in Ribeirão Preto and to have breastfed a child from a
previous delivery for at least 3 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Tobacco smokers, drug addicts or alcoholics,

- Women with educational levels lower than 5 years,

- Women with clinical conditions considered category 3 and 4 for implant use (except
insertion immediately postpartum) by the WHO (World Health Organization, 2009),

- Women with histories of psychiatric illness,

- Women using medications that could alter the concentration of etonogestrel,

- Women with known allergies to the local anesthetic lidocaine (used to place the
implant),

- Women who wanted to keep their cyclic menstrual bleeding



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Female
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Contraception
Intervention(s)
Device: Implanon®
Primary Outcome(s)
breast milk intake [Time Frame: Six weeks after delivery]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Newborn weight [Time Frame: Six weeks after delivery]
Exclusive breastfeeding [Time Frame: Six weeks after delivery]
Secondary ID(s)
62798
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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