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Last refreshed on: 19 February 2015
Main ID:  NCT01722084
Date of registration: 29/10/2012
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: University Ghent
Public title: Community-embedded Reproductive Health Care for Adolescents in Latin America. CERCA
Scientific title: Community-embedded Reproductive Health Care for Adolescents in Latin America (CERCA).
Date of first enrolment: July 2011
Target sample size: 9625
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT01722084
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Prevention  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Bolivia Ecuador Nicaragua
Contacts
Name:     Marleen Temmerman, MD, PhD
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Affiliation:  University Ghent
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Nicaragua - adolescents aged 13-18 living in the 33 town districts of Managua with a
population number that varies between 1400 and 4500 inhabitants and with more than 50 %
poor people.

Bolivia and Ecuador: Students from conveniently selected secondary schools in Cochabamba
(Bolivia) and Cuenca (Ecuador).



Age minimum: 13 Years
Age maximum: 18 Years
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Sexual and Reproductive Health Problems
Intervention(s)
Behavioral: Theory of planned behaviour (TPB) and social cognitive theory (SCT).
Primary Outcome(s)
Self-reported use of modern contraceptives at 18 months of interventions. [Time Frame: At 18 months of intervention]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Self-reported access health services for sexual and reproductive health. [Time Frame: At 18 months of intervention]
Self-reported information seeking behaviour. [Time Frame: At 18 months of intervention]
Self-reported pregnancy. [Time Frame: At 18 months of intervention]
Self-reported ease to communicate about sexuality with parents, partner, friends. [Time Frame: At 18 months of intervention]
Secondary ID(s)
FP7-health-241615
2011/380
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
VU University of Amsterdam
Ethics review
Results
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