Hey Callum practically wise on the ground here I would be like 70 percent sure that it would be impossible to meaningfully assess abortion reduction and a study endpoint
An anonymous survey based study is a lot easier ethics wise than a big RCT, I think it would be a struggle to get through ethics approval in Uganda here—again I have a bit of experience with ethics board but could be wrong. For better or worse (I think worse) ethics boards are understandably often tighter on RCTs than other study forms.
Hey Callum practically wise on the ground here I would be like 70 percent sure that it would be impossible to meaningfully assess abortion reduction and a study endpoint
An anonymous survey based study is a lot easier ethics wise than a big RCT, I think it would be a struggle to get through ethics approval in Uganda here—again I have a bit of experience with ethics board but could be wrong. For better or worse (I think worse) ethics boards are understandably often tighter on RCTs than other study forms.
Thanks Nick. I have come across quite a lot of abortion surveys in countries with restrictive laws. Here is one from Uganda: https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0002340#sec007 I agree entirely that the results are likely not to be very reliable, but I think that is the bigger problem; less so the lack of ethics approval.