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CompletedNCT02813993CFPAUpdated Jan 11, 2021

Couples Fertility and Pregnancy Awareness

An interventional study of Health educational video in Fertility; Decision to Get Pregnant, sponsored by Universidade do Porto. Completed at 1 site in Portugal. Open to participants aged 24 Years to 50 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-01-11.

Sponsored by Universidade do Porto · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention

Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
244
Allocation
Randomized
Ages
24 Years to 50 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Recent evidence has shown that young people that want to have children have low fertility knowledge. This study evaluates the efficacy of a video intervention on fertility knowledge, on changes in lifestyle and on the decision to start to get pregnant.

Read the detailed description

This study will compare the efficacy of a video intervention versus control (no video) in couples that intend to have children in the next three years. The couples will be randomized to the two groups. The video contains information concerning age-related fertility decline, fertility risk factors, the success of infertility treatments, and emotional consequences of childlessness.

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Conditions studied

  • Fertility; Decision to Get Pregnant

Keywords

  • infertility
  • fertility awareness
  • preconceptional care
  • health interventions
  • couples
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In context

Lead sponsor

Universidade do Porto is the lead sponsor of 170 studies on the registry; 52 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
24 Years to 50 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

  • Female member of the couples has between 24 to 40 years
  • Childless couples trying to conceive or couples who desired to have children in the next 3 years
  • Relationship length minimum of one year

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Couples that already had achieved a successful pregnancy
  • Couples with children
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes assessor)
Enrollment
244 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Intervention Group

    A five-minute video concerning age-related fertility decline, fertility risk factors, success of infertility treatments and emotional consequences of childlessness

    Other: Health educational video

  • No intervention
    Control

    No intervention

Interventions

  • OtherHealth educational video
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in Fertility knowledge

    This measure assesses fertility knowledge by asking questions on the probability of conception and fertility treatment success rates, infertility definition and infertility risk factors

    Time frame: T0 - before the intervention; T1 - one month later; T2 - six months later; T3 - one year later

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in number of months planned to get pregnant/pregnancy

    This question measures the number of months estimated by participants until they get pregnant or pregnancy

    Time frame: T0 - before the intervention; T1 - one month later; T2 - six months later; T3 - one year later

  2. Change in intention and adoption of fertility-optimizing behaviors

    These questions assessed the intentions to adopt and the effective adoption of fertility-optimizing behaviors

    Time frame: T0 - before the intervention; T1 - one month later; T2 - six months later; T3 - one year later

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Study locations

1 site
  • University of Porto, Faculty of Psychology and Educational and Education Sciences
    Porto, 4200-193, Portugal
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Undecided

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 11, 2021, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02813993
Lead sponsor
Universidade do Porto
Collaborators
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jun 27, 2016
Start date
Oct 2016
Primary completion
Oct 2020
Completion
Oct 2020
Last update
Jan 11, 2021

Study contacts

Juliana Pedro, MSc
principal investigator · Universidade do Porto

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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