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Clinical trialNCT02341027CompletedInterventional

Immediate Versus Interval Postpartum Use of the Levonorgestrel Contraceptive Implants: a Randomized Controlled Trial

SponsorUniversity of California, San FranciscoEnrollment205Contraceptive Implant UtilizationLactation
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Summary

The lay summary the sponsor registered on ClinicalTrials.gov.

This study will evaluate if immediate postpartum placement of a levonorgestrel (LNG) contraceptive implant within 5 days of delivery improves implant utilization at 6 months postpartum compared to implant placement at 6-8 weeks postpartum among women in Uganda.

Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a findmyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

  • Jody Steinauer, MD, MAS

    University of California, San Francisco

    Principal Investigator
  • Josephat Byamugisha, MBChB, PhD

    Mulago Hospital and Makerere University College of Health Sciences

    Principal Investigator
  • Sarah Averbach, MD

    University of California, San Francisco

    Principal Investigator

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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

Uganda
  • Mulago Hospital

    Kampala, Uganda

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study — it may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start
31 Jan 2015
Primary completion
30 Jun 2016
Completion
30 Jun 2016
Last update posted
17 Feb 2020
Registered enrollment
205
Registry id
NCT02341027

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 24 Aug 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; findmyKOL does not interpret them.