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

Open to females ages 18-25

This study involves two groups of human subjects: students at 28 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.

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