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NCT Number: NCT06048328

Game Changers for Family Planning Peer Advocacy Program

This study will adapt the Game Changers peer advocacy training model for family planning context and pilot test the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of the intervention to empower female contraception users to advocate for contraception use among women in their social networks who have unmet need for contraception.

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Key information

Conditions

Family Planning

Age range

18 year–49 year

Sex eligibility

Female

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1 / Phase 2

About this study

The investigators will conduct a pilot RCT of Game Changers for Family Planning (GC-FP) with 40 female modern contraceptive (MC) users (index participants) at one rural public clinic, with 20 randomly assigned to receive the intervention (in 2 groups of 10) and 20 to the wait-list control; enrollment and randomization will be stratified by age and relationship status. Each index will recruit up to 3 social network members (alters) with unmet need for MC (max. total=120). Data will be collected at baseline and month 6 from all participants; primary outcome is alter MC use at month 6.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Index participants:

Inclusion criteria

  • MC user for past year

Social network member participant:

Inclusion criteria

  • Not using MC, but reports trying to prevent pregnancy
  • Know about the MC use of their referring index participant

Treatment and study plan

Game Changers for Family Planning

Behavioral

Game Changers for Family Planning (GC-FP) intervention. The intervention will consist of 6 group sessions. The sessions will focus on stigma reduction, disclosure decision making, knowledge, and building skills for advocacy. The 2-hour, weekly sessions will be facilitated by 2 trained peers who are MC users, and conducted in Luganda using a structured manual, and group format to facilitate: sharing of experiences to build support, modeling and motivation; group problem solving and role playing to build skills and self-efficacy; and homework between sessions to practice skills and generate experiences to be processed in the group.

Primary outcomes

  1. Rate of use of modern contraceptives (social network participants)

    Time frame: 6 months

    Proportion of participants who use a modern contraceptive, abstracted from medical chart

Secondary outcomes

  1. Mean level of engagement in family planning advocacy (index participants)

    Time frame: 6 months

    Mean item score on self-report scale measuring engagement in family planning advocacy

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Glenn Wagner

CONTACT

[email protected]

3234284376

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

RAND

Other

Collaborators

  • Makerere University

Registry information

Official study title

Pilot of a Peer Advocacy Training Intervention to Reduce Unmet Need for Contraception in Uganda

Acronym: GC-FP

Important dates

Study start
2027
Primary completion
2030
Study completion
2031
First posted
Sep 21, 2023
Registry last updated
Dec 31, 2025

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