Evaluating Household Visits and Small Groups to Increase Contraception Use Among Married Adolescent Girls in Rural Niger

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• Main ID: NCT03226730
• Date of registration: 07/10/2016
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: University of California, San Diego
• Public title: Evaluating Household Visits and Small Groups to Increase Contraception Use Among Married Adolescent Girls in Rural Niger IMPACT-RMA
• Scientific title: Evaluating Household Visits and Small Groups to Increase Contraception Use Among Married Adolescent Girls in Rural Niger
• Date of first enrolment: May 2016
• Target sample size: 2898
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03226730
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Factorial Assignment. Primary purpose: Prevention. Masking: None (Open Label).
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Niger, United States

Contacts

• Name: Jay G Silverman, PhD
• Affiliation: Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California, San Diego

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

For Women:

- Married

- 13-19 years old

- Fluent in Hausa or Zarma

- Residing in the village where recruitment is taking place with no plans to move away
in next 18 months or plan to travel for more than 6 months during that period

- Providing informed consent.

For Men:

- Must be the husband to an eligible adolescent participating in the study

- Hausa or Zarma speaking

- Providing informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

For Women:

- Plans to move away in next 18 months or plans to travel for more than 6 months during
that period;

- Currently sterilized (to enable measurement of changes in use of temporary methods of
contraception from baseline to 16-months follow-up)



Age minimum: 13 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: All

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Contraception

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: Household Visits

Behavioral: Small Groups

Primary Outcome(s)

Contraception Use Questionnaire [Time Frame: baseline and 18 month follow up]

Intentions to Use Contraception Questionnaire [Time Frame: baseline and 18 month follow up]

Secondary Outcome(s)

Knowledge of effective contraceptive methods Questionnaire [Time Frame: baseline and 18 month follow up]

Acceptance of effective contraceptive methods Questionnaire [Time Frame: baseline and 18 month follow up]

Female Empowerment Questionnaire [Time Frame: baseline and 18 month follow up]

Social norms regarding gender equity Questionnaire [Time Frame: baseline and 18 month follow up]

Secondary ID(s)

2016-1430

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Pathfinder International