This study will evaluate a smart phone-based application ("app") designed to inform pregnant women ages 15-25 about their contraception options. The goal of this research will be to evaluate the usability, feasibility and acceptability of this app.
This study will evaluate a smart phone-based application ("app") designed to inform pregnant women ages 15-25 about their contraception options. The goal of this research will be to evaluate the usability, feasibility and acceptability of this app. Participants will be asked to complete a survey after informed consent and before using the app. After using the app, participants will complete a second survey. This second survey will ask questions about the app including the following topics: Usability, user-friendliness, navigation, user interface, time spent, organization readability; Feasibility, informative, helpful, comprehensible, quality of art, interface, sound; and Acceptability breadth of content, depth of content, engaging and motivating, Innovative utility and value. Women will also rate the degree to which they promote use of the product: would use the app if available, believe the app will support contraceptive use and would recommend the app to peers. Study participation will end once participants are done with the second survey.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
20
This is a theory-based smart phone-based application designed to provide immediate postpartum contraception information to young women aged 15-25.
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Feasibility of Application
Feasibility, acceptability and usability of application. Mean of each item is reported. Each item has a possible score of 1-5, 1 = strongly disagree; 5= strongly agree. Higher scores indicate a better results for all items except "I found the app too complex to understand," "I think I would need tech support to use this app," "I thought there was too much inconsistency in app," "I found the app cumbersome to use," and "I needed to learn a lot before I could get going," where a lower score is a better result.
Time frame: Immediately post intervention
Prior Method Use
Methods of birth control participants have ever used
Time frame: Pre-Survey
Number of Pregnancies (Including Current)
Time frame: Pre-Survey
Contraception Knowledge
7 questions assessing participant knowledge of different contraception methods
Time frame: Pre-Survey
Patient Activation
Participant total of 13 Likert-style questions asking about how active a role they have taken in determining their health care. Measurement presented is the sum of 13 Likert items 1-5 to create a scale score. Possible score range from 13-65, with higher scores indicating more activation.
Time frame: Pre-Survey, immediately post intervention
Information, Motivation and Behavioral Skills
15 questions asking participants about the information, motivation, and behavioral skills they possess relating to spacing pregnancies by 18 months or longer, split into information, motivation, and behavioral self-efficacy variables. Three subscales are presented: information subscale, motivation subscale, and behavioral skills subscale. The information scale is the summed correct answers to 7 questions, possible score 0-7. Motivation subscale is the sum of 6 Likert-type items with values from 1-4, for possible scores of 6-24; higher score is better. Behavioral skills subscale is the sum of 5 Likert-type items with values from 1-5, for possible subscales scores of 5-25; higher score is better.
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Time frame: immediately post intervention
Number of Children
Time frame: Pre-Survey
Number of Induced Abortions
Previous miscarriages, abortions, times pregnant and children participants have
Time frame: Pre-Survey
Number of Miscarriages
Previous miscarriages, abortions, times pregnant and children participants have
Time frame: Pre-Survey