Improving Reproductive Health for Women in Opioid Medication-Assisted Treatment (OMAT)

Study Summary

Recent research suggests that women with substance use disorders may be at a higher risk of unintended pregnancy. There is a paucity of interventions specifically focused on this population. Through using mixed methods, this study proposes to develop a brief peer-led intervention (based on the Health Belief Model) to prevent unintended pregnancies among women entering opioid medication-assisted treatment; to assess acceptability, feasibility and the initial efficacy of the behavioral intervention; and to conduct exploratory analyses to identify the Health Belief Model constructs that are most influential on use of long-acting reversible contraception methods. Future research would include testing the intervention in a larger scale trial and with other populations.

Primary Outcome

Assess initial efficacy (family planning/clinical visits and uptake of birth control, specifically long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) of the SHINE intervention, using baseline/follow up surveys and review of medical records at three and six months. Specifically, the number of participants that were using LARCs and the number of participants who had attended family visits at each time point.

Conditions Studied

Interventions

• BEHAVIORAL SHINE intervention group

Study Locations (1)