patients and methods the current quasi-experimental study was conducted on 96 eligible females, who were allocated either to the case or the control group and were selected from homes in the border of zahedan city (southeast of iran) during 2010. convenience sampling by door-to-door visits was used for finding eligible cases. a ttm-based self-administrated family planning questionnaire was used...

objective: despite development of new contraceptive methods, sterilization remained the most widely used method. our objective was to determine the factors contributing to decision making for tubal ligation in females. materials and methods: a cross sectional study was conducted in jinnah post graduate medical centre (jpmc) between march - november 2008. about 505 females using contraceptive me...

introduction: huntington disease (hd) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease which affects movement control system of the brain. hd symptoms lead to patient’s gait change and influence stride time intervals. in this study, we present a grey box mathematical model to simulate hddisorders. this model contains main physiological findings about bg. methods: we used artificial neural networks (a...

background: our study compares the efficacy of the combined contraceptive vaginal ring to oral contraceptive pills (ocps) for hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian (hpo) axis suppression in egg donor in vitro fertilization (ivf) cycles. methods: our retrospective cohort study includes patients from the center for assisted reproduction (care) in bedford, texas undergoing ivf cycles as egg donors from j...

The study examined the trend in contraceptive use among sexually active women of reproductive age in Ghana. The study also investigated the socioeconomic determinants of contraceptive use. Cross tabulations and logistic regression analyses were performed on data from the Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys 1988 2008. The results indicate low contraceptive use among women with marked variation ...

Contraceptive failure rates for modern methods including sterilization are reported to be high in China, but little is known about the consequence of contraceptive failure and characteristics of women who decide to have an abortion if a contraceptive failure occurs. Using 6225 contraceptive failures from the 1988 Chinese Two-per-Thousand Fertility Survey, this study examines the resolution of c...

CONTEXT Each year, nearly one in four U.S. women at risk of unintended pregnancy experience one or more months of contraceptive nonuse. Understanding what factors are associated with risky contraceptive use patterns can inform programs and policies designed to reduce levels of unintended pregnancy. METHODS A nationally representative sample of 1,978 adult women at risk for unintended pregnanc...