Expanding community pharmacists' scope of practice in relation to contraceptive counselling and referral: a protocol for a pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster randomised trial (ALLIANCE).

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Improving access to effective contraception has the potential to reduce unintended pregnancy and abortion rates. Community pharmacists could play an expanded role in contraceptive counselling and referral to contraceptive prescribers particularly when women are already attending community pharmacy to obtain emergency contraceptive pills (ECPs) or to have medical abortion (MA) medicines dispensed. The ALLIANCE trial aims to compare the subsequent uptake of effective contraception (hormonal or intrauterine) in women seeking ECP or MA medicines, who receive the ALLIANCE community pharmacy-based intervention with those who do not receive the intervention.

Methods and analysis

ALLIANCE is a stepped-wedge pragmatic cluster randomised trial in Australian community phar

SUBMITTER: Mazza D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10476139 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature