Quick Start Approach to Birth Control Pills
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Official title
RCT of a Novel Oral Contraceptive Initiation Method
Brief summary
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Women who choose to take birth control pills are currently instructed to begin taking the pills at the end of a menstrual cycle. This creates a window of time between when the woman is given the pills and when she begins taking them. Some women fail to begin taking the pills, placing them at increased risk of pregnancy. This study will evaluate a new approach to beginning birth control pills. Women will take the first pill in the doctor's office rather than waiting until the next menstrual cycle.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00068848
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase 4
- Lead sponsor
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
- NIH
- Enrollment
- 2,000 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- Up to 24 Years
- Sex
- Female
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Jan 31, 2003
- Primary completion
- Not listed
- Completion
- Feb 28, 2005
- Last update posted
- Apr 9, 2007
2003 – 2005
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 3
- U.S. cities
- 3
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emory University School of Medicine | Atlanta | Georgia | 30303 | — |
| Mt. Sinai School of Medicine | New York | New York | 10128 | — |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas | Dallas | Texas | 75235 | — |
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- Last update posted Apr 9, 2007 · Synced Sep 5, 2026
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