Better Contraceptive Choices: Immediate or Delayed Insertion of IUC After Second Trimester Abortion

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA · Apr 6, 2009

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ClinConnect Summary

This Randomized Controlled Trial will be offered to women choosing to have a LNG-IUC or CuT380 after an abortion for gestational ages from 12 to 24 weeks. \[delete next insert\]"and a non intervention control group offered to all others having abortions at this gestational age". Participants choosing an LNG-IUC or CUT380 will be randomly assigned to immediate or interval insertion. In conjunction with follow up visits and questionnaires, the British Columbia Linked Health Database access will determine pregnancy rate within one year for the two intervention groups \[delete next insert\] and...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Have completed informed consent for an abortion at gestation between 12 weeks zero days and 23 weeks 6 days, and
• • 2. Choosing an IUC (either LNG-IUC or CuT380-IUC) for contraception post abortion, and
• • 3. Residents of British Columbia, registered with the Medical Services Plan health care system.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • 1. Intention to move from BC within the next year
• • 2. Intention to conceive within the next year.
• • 3. Any of the following contraindications to use of a LNG-IUC or a CuT380-IUC
• 4. Post Randomization Exclusion:
• • uterine perforation at the time of abortion
• • bleeding of more than 500 cc during abortion
• • any of the above exclusions detected at time of abortion