Game Changers for Family Planning Peer Advocacy Program
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- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Game Changers for Family Planning.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Family Planning. Basic parameters: 18 years — 49 years · Female.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Pilot of a Peer Advocacy Training Intervention to Reduce Unmet Need for Contraception in Uganda
Overview
This study will adapt the Game Changers peer advocacy training model for family planning context and pilot test the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of the intervention to empower female contraception users to advocate for contraception use among women in their social networks who have unmet need for contraception.
Detailed description
The investigators will conduct a pilot RCT of Game Changers for Family Planning (GC-FP) with 40 female modern contraceptive (MC) users (index participants) at one rural public clinic, with 20 randomly assigned to receive the intervention (in 2 groups of 10) and 20 to the wait-list control; enrollment and randomization will be stratified by age and relationship status. Each index will recruit up to 3 social network members (alters) with unmet need for MC (max. total=120). Data will be collected at baseline and month 6 from all participants; primary outcome is alter MC use at month 6.
Interventions
- Behavioral Game Changers for Family Planning
Game Changers for Family Planning (GC-FP) intervention. The intervention will consist of 6 group sessions. The sessions will focus on stigma reduction, disclosure decision making, knowledge, and building skills for advocacy. The 2-hour, weekly sessions will be facilitated by 2 trained peers who are MC users, and conducted in Luganda using a structured manual, and group format to facilitate: sharing of experiences to build support, modeling and motivation; group problem solving and role playing t
Primary outcome measures
- Rate of use of modern contraceptives (social network participants) [Time frame: 6 months]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Mean level of engagement in family planning advocacy (index participants) [Time frame: 6 months]
Eligibility criteria
Index participants:
Inclusion criteria
- MC user for past year
Social network member participant:
Inclusion criteria
- Not using MC, but reports trying to prevent pregnancy
- Know about the MC use of their referring index participant
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: Yes
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
Center list to be confirmed — check the primary protocol.
Identifiers
NCT: NCT06048328 · 2024-GC-FP