Right For Me is a study that aims to improve the conversations patients and health care providers have about birth control. Right For Me will test two different strategies for improving these conversations. The first strategy is to give patients a video to watch that encourages them to ask three specific questions in their health care visit, as well as a prompt card that reminds them of the three questions. The second strategy is to give health care providers a set of decision aids that describe available birth control methods, as well as training in how to use them with patients during the health care visit. Right For Me will test whether introducing one or both of these strategies leads to better conversations than providing health care as usual.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
5,038
1. A brief video (available in English and Spanish) intended to be viewed by patients immediately before the health care visit. The video aims to enhance patients' motivation, skills, and self-efficacy to ask their health care providers three specific questions: (1) What are my options? (2) What are the pros and cons of those options? and (3) How likely are those pros and cons to happen to me? 2. A prompt card (available in English and Spanish) intended to be provided to patients when they view the video and kept. The card aims to remind patients of the three questions presented in the video.
1. Seven one-page decision aids on contraceptive methods (available in English and Spanish) intended to be used by health care providers with patients during the health care visit. 2. A five-minute training video and accompanying written guidance (available in English) intended to be reviewed by health care providers before implementing the decision aids (and as frequently as desired thereafter). The training aims to enhance providers' motivation, skills, and self-efficacy to use the decision aids to facilitate shared decision-making in the health care visit.
The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice
Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
Shared Decision-making About Contraceptive Methods
Shared decision-making about contraceptive methods in the health care visit, measured using the three-item CollaboRATE measure (Barr et al., 2014; Elwyn et al., 2013). We used the version of CollaboRATE with a five-point response scale and adopted the binary scoring approach, which yields a score of 0 (no shared decision-making) and 1 (shared decision-making) for each participant. Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: Immediately after the index health care visit (Time 1 (T1)) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Conversation About Contraception
Whether participants experienced a conversation about contraception in the health care visit, measured using a self-developed item. Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: Immediately after the index health care visit (T1) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Satisfaction With Conversation About Contraception
Participants' satisfaction with the conversation about contraception in the health care visit, measured using an adapted item (Weisman et al., 2002). Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: Immediately after the index health care visit (T1) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Intended Contraceptive Method(s)
What, if any, contraceptive method(s) participants intend to use in the next four weeks, measured using a self-developed checklist. Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: Immediately after the index health care visit (T1) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Intention to Use a Highly Effective Contraceptive Method
Whether participants intend to use at least one highly effective contraceptive method in the next four weeks, derived from data on intended contraceptive method(s). Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: Immediately after the index health care visit (T1) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Values Concordance of Intended Contraceptive Method(s)
Participants' perceptions of the degree of concordance between the contraceptive method(s) they intend(ed) to use and their individual values, needs, and preferences, measured using a self-developed item. Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: Immediately after the index health care visit (T1); 4 weeks after the index health care visit (Time 2 (T2)); 6 months after the index health care visit (Time 3 (T3)) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Decision Regret About Intended Contraceptive Method(s)
Participants' feelings of decision regret about the contraceptive method(s) they intended to use, measured using an adaptation of the five-item Decision Regret Scale (Brehaut et al., 2003; O'Connor, 1996). Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: 4 weeks after the index health care visit (T2); 6 months after the index health care visit (T3) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Contraceptive Method(s) Used
What, if any, contraceptive method(s) participants used in the last four weeks, measured using a self-developed checklist. Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: 4 weeks after the index health care visit (T2); 6 months after the index health care visit (T3) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Use of a Highly Effective Contraceptive Method
Whether participants used at least one highly effective contraceptive method in the last four weeks, derived from data on contraceptive method(s) used. Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: 4 weeks after the index health care visit (T2); 6 months after the index health care visit (T3) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Use of Intended Contraceptive Method(s)
Whether participants used their intended contraceptive method(s) in the last four weeks, derived from data on intended contraceptive method(s) and contraceptive method(s) used. Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: 4 weeks after the index health care visit (T2); 6 months after the index health care visit (T3) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Adherence to Contraceptive Method(s) Used
Participants' adherence to the contraceptive method(s) they used in the last four weeks, measured using a self-developed, 21-item measure. Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: 4 weeks after the index health care visit (T2); 6 months after the index health care visit (T3) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Satisfaction With Contraceptive Method(s) Used
Participants' satisfaction with the contraceptive method(s) they used in the last four weeks, measured using a self-developed item. Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: 4 weeks after the index health care visit (T2); 6 months after the index health care visit (T3) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Unintended Pregnancy (Pregnancy Timing Preferences)
Participants' experience of one or more unintended pregnancies since the health care visit (as defined by their pregnancy timing preferences), measured using an adapted item (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: 6 months after the index health care visit (T3) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Unintended Pregnancy (Pregnancy Seeking)
Participants' experience of one or more unintended pregnancies since the health care visit (as defined by their pregnancy seeking), measured using an adapted item (Kavanaugh \& Schwarz, 2009). Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: 6 months after the index health care visit (T3) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
Unwelcome Pregnancy
Participants' experience of one or more unwelcome pregnancies since the health care visit, measured using an adapted item (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). Note: 'pre-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial before clinics began implementing interventions and 'post-implementation participants' comprise those enrolled in the trial after clinics began implementing interventions (if relevant).
Time frame: 6 months after the index health care visit (T3) [for both pre-implementation and post-implementation participants]
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