Psychosocial and Physiological Mechanisms in the Effect of Hormonal Contraception on the Female Sexual Desire

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2011-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

75 heterosexual women are asked to use 3 different types of contraception (Nuvaring, low-dose combination pill, minipill), each during 3 months. On a monthly basis, questionnaires are filled out about sexual desire and psychosocial, relational en sexual parameters. Also the sexual desire of the partner is questioned. On a three-monthly basis, blood samples are drawn to determine changes in hormonal parameters (one sample per product period).

75 lesbian women are doing the same trial, but during an extra 3 months period, they are asked to have their natural menstrual cyclus as a control condition. Blood samples during these extra months will be drawn at the third or fourth day after start of the menses.

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University Hospital, Ghent
• Collaborator: Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders, Belgium
• Treatments: NuvaRing

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Heterosexual or lesbian women

• Aged between 18 and 45 years

• Stable monogameous relationship

• Normal menstrual cyclus

Exclusion Criteria:

• Polycystic ovarial syndrome

• Normal exclusion criteria for the use of contraception

• Use of medication known to influence sexual desire and/or androgen levels

• Women who wants to become pregnant, are pregnant or breastfeeding