"Vasectomy: Right for Me?" Decision Support Tool
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: "Vasectomy: Right for Me?" decision aid.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Vasectomy, Contraception, Contraception Behavior, Reproductive Behavior. Basic parameters: 21 years — 55 years · Male.
- 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
- United States
- 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
Addressing Factors Related to Disparities in Vasectomy
Overview
The goal of this trial is to learn if a web-based decision aid designed to provide evidence-based information about vasectomy and other birth control options helps improve users' decision-making about birth control. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Do people who use the decision aid have better knowledge about vasectomy? * Do people who use the decision aid have lower conflict with their decision? Participants will: * Use the decision aid (if they are assigned to the intervention arm). * Answer survey questions about their knowledge, decision-making, interest in vasectomy, and healthcare navigation experiences.
Detailed description
This study seeks to test a web-based decision support tool developed to enhance men's ability to make informed decisions about vasectomy that align with their preferences, values and reproductive goals. Half of participants will take their T1 survey immediately following randomization, while the other half will first use the web-based decision aid. The investigators hypothesize that compared to men who do not use the decision aid, men randomized to the decision aid arm will have greater knowledge about vasectomy and alternative options, lower decisional conflict, and will report greater interest in getting a vasectomy.
Interventions
- Behavioral "Vasectomy: Right for Me?" decision aid
The vasectomy decision aid is a web-based decision aid designed to help men make informed and value-concordant decisions about vasectomy.
Primary outcome measures
- Participant knowledge about vacectomy [Time frame: Up to 45 minutes]
- Participant decisional conflict in contraceptive choice [Time frame: Up to 45 minutes]
Secondary outcome measures (1)
- Interest in vasectomy [Time frame: Up to 45 minutes]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Are assigned male at birth
- 21-55 years of age
- Comfortable reading in English or Spanish
- Live in the United States
- Are considering vasectomy
- Have not had a vasectomy
Exclusion criteria
- Are not assigned male at birth
- Are less than 21 or more than 55 years of age
- Is not comfortable reading English nor Spanish
- Do not live in the United States
- Are not considering vasectomy
- Have had a vasectomy
- Once a racial or economic sub-group recruitment number has been reached, no other subjects fitting that ethnicity or income group will be enrolled.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Single blind
- Primary purpose
- Other
Study locations
United States · 2 centers
- Resound Research for Reproductive Health, a project of the Tides Center — San Francisco
- CONVERGE Toward Sexual and Reproductive Health Equity — Pittsburgh
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07451067 · STUDY23070159 · R01HD110557