Emergency Contraception (ECP): Reducing Unintended Pregnancies

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2004-05-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Emergency contraception is a method of birth control that can be used up to three days after sexual intercourse. Emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) can be given to a woman before she needs them (advance provision) or when she needs them (emergency provision). This study will compare these two methods of providing ECPs.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
• Treatments: Estrogens; Progesterone

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Patient at a participating clinic

Exclusion Criteria

• Pregnant

• Medical or surgical procedure preventing pregnancy (e.g., tubal ligation, hysterectomy)

• Norplant or IUDs

• Desires to become pregnant