Rigorous Evaluation of Let's Talk Birth Control

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexFemale
Age15-24
SponsorChild Trends

About this trial

The goal of this cluster-level randomized controlled trial is to evaluate the impacts of Let's Talk Birth Control, a clinical decision support intervention for adolescents that consists of a printed contraceptive decision aid (CDA), contraceptive counseling, and a QR code to the Bedsider.org Method Explorer (ME). The goal of Let's Talk Birth Control is to reduce rates of sex without a contraceptive method among adolescent patients, increase use of preferred contraceptive method, as well as to increase self-efficacy to discuss, obtain, and correctly use contraceptive methods

The primary research questions are:

* Does receiving care from a health center participating in Let's Talk Birth Control reduce rates of sex without a contraceptive method among adolescent patients compared to those visiting a standard of care control health center? * Does receiving care from a health center participating in Let's Talk Birth Control increase use of preferred contraceptive method among adolescent patients compared to those visiting a standard of care control health center?

The evaluation will focus on the impacts of receiving the Let's Talk Birth Control intervention, as compared to receiving standard health care services.

As part of this study:

* All participants will be asked to complete baseline, 1-week post-intervention, and 9-month follow-up surveys. * Participants at health centers randomized to receive the Let's Talk intervention, will be asked to: * Review the Let's Talk CDA independently prior to meeting with their healthcare provider * Participate in an observation focused on the provider's use of the CDA for contraceptive counseling during the healthcare visit (select participants only) * Participate in a focus group discussing their perceptions of the Let's Talk Birth Control intervention (select participants only)

Staff at health centers randomized to receive the Let's Talk intervention will be asked to:

* Complete a 45-60 minute online asynchronous training covering patient-centered contraceptive counseling (PCCC) for adolescents and using the CDA * Use the Let's Talk CDA to facilitate patient-centered contraceptive counseling with patients that have enrolled in the study

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Serve 400+ patients assigned female at birth (AFAB) aged 15-24 receiving sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services or general wellness exams annually. Although the project team may enroll rural health centers with smaller populations

Have not implemented an adolescent SRH patient-centered training recently

Do not utilize a contraceptive decision aid (CDA) designed for adolescent patients

Assigned female at birth

Disqualifiers

Does not serve at least 400 AFAB aged 15-24 receiving SRH services or general wellness exams annually

Has recently implemented an adolescent SRH training

Currently using a CDA designed for adolescent patients

Does not agree to be in study

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Let's Talk Birth Control

Treatment groups

1,500 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators

Child Trends

Lead sponsor

University of California, San Francisco

Collaborator

Power to Decide

Collaborator