OBJECTIVE To study the knowledge and experience of sexuality, contraception and sexually transmitted diseases among sexually active adolescents in Sweden. SUBJECTS Youth clinic visitors. SETTING Seventy-four youth clinics from all over the country of Sweden. METHODS A questionnaire with 17 multiple choice and nine open questions was distributed to all visitors at participating youth clini...

Purpose The aim of this study was to determine whether there is an associated effect between sociodemographic characteristics and sexual risk behaviors with health literacy in preventing unintended pregnancy among university students in Chon Buri province, Thailand. Participants and methods A cross-sectional study design was used. The data were collected between February and May, 2017. A self...

aim of sex education interventions should be to reduce the adverse outcomes of sexual intercourse. This includes unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infection rates. The findings of the most recent systematic review of interventions to reduce unintended pregnancies amongst adolescents, using the results exclusively from randomized trials in developed countries , are disappointing. 1 ...

OBJECTIVE Because unplanned pregnancies could cause maternal-fetal complications for women with diabetes, family planning vigilance (FPV) is imperative. The aims of this article are to operationalize and describe FPV and examine the associations among FPV behaviors and diabetes self-care management (DSM) and health outcomes of women with type 1 diabetes (T1D). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Retr...

Sound the trumpets. Family Planning guidance has finally and formally arrived as an initiative of national importance at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In an historic move, CDC has issued national recommendations on the best contraceptive practices in the United States [1]. Since the mid 1990s, CDC has been working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to support WHO's...

AIMS Although Russia has one of the highest rates of alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable burden of disease, little is known about the existing research on prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASDs) in this country. The objective of this study was to locate and review published and unpublished studies related to any aspect of PAE and FASD conducted in o...

PURPOSE Reducing disparities in teen pregnancy and birth rates among African American and Latina teens is a central focus of a community-wide teen pregnancy prevention initiative implemented by the South Carolina Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. Disparities in teen pregnancy and birth rates are driven, in part, by differential access to contraception and reproductive health care services. Th...

BACKGROUND In order to better target prevention initiatives for the obesity epidemic in Canada, policy-makers, in addition to information about risk factors, require an understanding of the preventive potential which is best provided by the risk factor's population attributable risk fraction (PARF). OBJECTIVE To estimate the PARF for childhood overweight risk factors as identified by a popula...

background: low birth weight considered as an important indicator of health of each country and identifying of its causative factors is necessary. the aim of present study was to determine the relationship between the biological, psychological-cognitive and social - cultural characteristics of parents and infant’s birth weight in isfahan province. methods: in this study 910 recently delivered m...

The study visualizes the Prevention of Malaria among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinic. in pregnancy has been identified as a global health challenge because life-threatening complications it poses to both mother and unborn child. These include maternal anemia, premature delivery, low birth weight, miscarriage, congenital infection perinatal mortality. Five different malaria parasite sp...