Status:
UNKNOWN
Abortion-related Morbidity and Mortality in Conflict-affected and Fragile Settings Study
Lead Sponsor:
Epicentre
Collaborating Sponsors:
Ipas
Guttmacher Institute
Conditions:
Abortion Complication
Eligibility:
FEMALE
Brief Summary
To describe and estimate the burden of abortion-related complications, particularly near-miss complications and deaths, and their associated factors among women presenting for abortion-related complic...
Detailed Description
Multi-sites mixed-methods study with 4 components: 1. A quantitative observational descriptive study among women presenting for abortion-related complications to determine the frequency and severity ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW:
- Women
- with any signs or symptoms of abortion-related complications, i.e. any signs or symptoms of complications of spontaneous or induced abortion, whatever the abortion stage: inevitable, missed, incomplete, complete abortion .
- Or with a presentation primary diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy or molar pregnancy
Exclusion
- Threatened abortion (defined as vaginal bleeding with a closed cervix after having excluded the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy or molar pregnancy)
- History of abortion-related complications and presenting for an unrelated issue
- Refusal to participate
- QUANTITATIVE INTERVIEW:
- Inclusion criteria: all women included in the medical record review subcomponent and hospitalized (who stayed overnight or more)
- Exclusion criteria:
- Participation to the interview as potentially harmwful to the woman according to her health care provider, Refusal to participate.
- QUALITATIVE INTERVIEW:
- Inclusion criteria: Women eligible for the quantitative interview and who experienced at least 1 criterion of near-miss event or potentially life-threatening conditions
- Exclusion criteria:
- Participation to the interview as potentially harmwful to the woman according to her health care provider, Refusal to participate.
- RAPID FACILITY ASSESSMENT:
- Key-informant: the provider in charge of the service providing post-abortion care
- KAPB SURVEY:
- Inclusion criteria:
- Health professionals (i.e. doctors, midwives, clinical officers, medical officers, nurses, aidmidwives, aid-nurses) involved in PAC and SAC services in the study site health facility Literate
- Exclusion criteria:
- Refusal to participate.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
September 3 2019
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
December 1 2021
Estimated Enrollment :
2500 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04331847
Start Date
September 3 2019
End Date
December 1 2021
Last Update
October 11 2021
Active Locations (3)
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1
Castor Maternity Center
Bangui, Central African Republic
2
Maternity center of the Hopital General de Référence
Masisi, Democratic Republic of the Congo
3
Maternity center of the general Jahun Hospital
Jahun, Nigeria