Oral Contraceptive Pills Compared to Vaginal Rings

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2004-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether teens and young women would prefer the Nuvaring to oral contraceptive pills after having tried both methods.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
• Collaborator: Organon
• Treatments: Contraceptive Agents; Contraceptives, Oral; Contraceptives, Oral, Combined

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Sexually active young women (n=130), English or Spanish speaking, aged 15-21 years, able and willing to try oral contraceptives and vaginal rings for 6 months

Exclusion Criteria:

• Not able or willing to use hormonal contraceptives, moving out of the area, pregnant or intending to become pregnant during the study time frame, not sexually active