CONTEXT: BENEFITS OF PREVENTING UNINTENDED PREGNANCY Among HIV-infected women in sub-Saharan Africa, about 60–90% of pregnancies are unintended.1–3 Improving uptake and use of voluntary family planning (FP) among this group of women could help them and their partners have the families that they want. In addition, prevention of unintended pregnancy contributes to prevention of mother-to-child tr...

Despite federal legalisation of abortion in the USA in 1973, women's right to choose abortion has been hotly debated, factoring heavily into the broader political landscape. Paralleling political division at the societal level, there has been considerable debate among academics regarding the extent to which abortion poses serious mental health risks to women. Over the past several decades, hund...

more children ever.3 A study of births to ever-married women found that the proportion of births that were unplanned decreased from 38% in 1969–1973 to 32% in 1978–1982, then increased again to 35% in 1984–1988.4 Another study comparing the 1982 and 1988 NSFG survey results found that there had been no change in the unintended pregnancy rate between 1982 and 1987, but that the unintended birth ...

CONTEXT Measures of contraceptive use at one point in time do not account for its changing nature. A measure that addresses the pattern of method use over time may better predict the cumulative risk of unintended pregnancy. METHODS Women at risk of unintended pregnancy were selected from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, and their contraceptive use patterns were compared across age-g...

Aim: To explore the consequence of unintended pregnancy, and compare these with real experiences amongst young married women in Nepal. Method: Sample survey of 997 married women and 19 in-depth case histories were studied. Results: The findings suggest that conflicts with spouses and family members, depression, worries or mental tension, loss of education and employment opportunities were the m...

This study examines contraceptive counseling received by adult women in their managed care plans and the relationship between counseling and women's contraceptive attitudes and practices. Telephone interviews were conducted with a random sample of 898 women ages 18 to 44 enrolled in a commercial health maintenance organization (HMO) or point-of-service (POS) health plan. Counseling received in ...

Background & aim: Despite the success of family planning programs in Iran in the recent decades, considerable proportions of pregnancies are still unintended and can be a cause of poor mental and physical health of the mother and child. The aim of this study was to investigate some important factors affecting uplanned pregnancies among married women in Semnan province, one of the developed prov...

Unintended pregnancy is among the most troubling public health problems and a major reproductive health issue worldwide imposing appreciable socioeconomic burden on individuals and society. Governments generally plan to control growth of births (especially wanted births as well as orphans and illegitimate births) imposing extra burden on public funding of the governments which inevitably affect...

OBJECTIVE To contribute to decision analysis by estimating utility, defined as an individual's valuation of specific health states, for different pregnancy contexts. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional analysis of data from pregnant women recruited at pregnancy testing clinics during June 2014-June 2015. Utility was measured using the visual analog scale (VAS), PROMIS GSF-derived utility, standard g...

BACKGROUND There has been considerable debate in the reproductive health literature as to whether unintended pregnancy influences use of maternal health services, particularly antenatal care. Despite the wealth of studies examining the association between pregnancy intention and antenatal care, findings remain mixed and inconclusive. The objective of this study is to systematically review and m...