UCSF College Health Study on Contraceptive Training and Education at Community Colleges

In the US, young women aged 18-25 years experience high rates of unintended pregnancy and
have limited knowledge of contraception or their pregnancy risks. They have little
familiarity with the full range of contraceptives, particularly long-acting reversible
contraception (LARC) including the IUD and implant. This campus-level, multiple component
intervention provides evidence-based contraceptive training and education to clinic staff and
students in this age group attending community colleges in California.

Inclusion Criteria:

This study involves two groups of human subjects: students at 20 community colleges and
staff at the student health center and referral clinics.

Students must be:

- Female;

- Age 18-25;

- Speaks English;

- Sexually active (vaginal sex with a male partner) in the last year;

- Not currently pregnant;

- Does not want to become pregnant in the next 12 months;

- At risk of pregnancy (including not sterilized);

- Enrolled in the current term at the participating community college;

- First-time college students, meaning no college enrollment prior to the current
academic year; and

- Willing to be contacted by email and telephone over the next 12 months.

Clinic staff must:

- Be employed by a participating clinic; and

- Offer clinical care, counseling or education for contraception at the clinic.

For colleges to be eligible to be study sites, they must:

- Be an accredited community college;

- Not share health center staff with a participating college site;

- Have no active LARC intervention; and

- Enroll students ages 18-25 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Students and clinic staff will be excluded if they do not meet the inclusion criteria.