| Trial name or title |
A Text Message Support System for Effective Continuation of a Birth Control Method in Female Adolescents: 'BC 2U': NCT01545609
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| Methods |
Randomised controlled trial (n = 220) |
| Participants |
Inner city, minority adolescent females (15 to 19 years of age), English speaking, owner of a working cell phone, wanting to start a birth control method and not on a method for the preceding 3 months, no contraindications to initiating a birth control method |
| Interventions |
Intervention: tailored text messages about their method of contraception |
| Outcomes |
Primary outcome: continuation of a birth control method at 4 months. Secondary outcomes: change in birth control method used, pregnancy |
| Starting date |
March 2012 |
| Contact information |
jf2815@cumc.columbia.edu |
| Notes |
Expect publication in 2015 |
