BACKGROUND Given recent legislative efforts to require parental notification for the provision of reproductive health care to minors, we sought to assess how obstetrician-gynecologists (Ob/Gyns) respond to requests for confidential contraceptive services. STUDY DESIGN Mailed survey of 1800 US Ob/Gyns, utilizing a vignette where a 17-year-old college freshman requests birth control pills and d...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF), a major pay-for-performance programme in the United Kingdom, on prescribing of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC) in primary care. METHODS Negative binomial interrupted time series analysis using practice level prescribing data from April 2007 to March 2012. The main outcome measure ...

Background & aim: The prevalence rate of contraceptive use in Ethiopia is 42%; however, only 5% of Ethiopians use the long-acting contraceptive methods. This rate is 4.8% in Benishangul Gumuz Region in this country. Regarding this, the present study aimed to assess the determinants of long-acting reversible contraceptive method use among married women in Assosa town, E...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the contraceptive prevalence rate (CPR) among - and contraceptive methods used by - married and unmarried women in China, from 1982 to 2010. METHOD Data concerning married women were collected from national surveys conducted by the Chinese government. Those pertaining to unmarried women were obtained by searching the China Academic Journal Network Publishing database and ...

OBJECTIVE This study sought to explore University of Ghana Business School diploma student's knowledge of contraceptives, types of contraceptives, attitudes towards contraceptive users, preference for contraceptives, benefits, and side-effects of contraceptives. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data was conducted with three sets of focus group discussions. Participants were systematically sampled from a...

BACKGROUND Perceptions of female teenagers in the Tshwane District contribute to the nonuseand or discontinued use of contraceptives as evidenced by increased levels of unplanned pregnancies. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to explore and describe the perceptions of female teenagers in the Tshwane District on the use of contraceptives. METHODS A qualitative, explorative, descripti...

Nonobstant les nombreuses initiatives visant à faire progresser le recours la planification familiale (PF) (sensibilisation, subvention et distribution base communautaire des produits contraceptifs), prévalence contraceptive moderne dans bon nombre de pays d’Afrique subsaharienne reste faible. En 2021, taux chez femmes en union était 32 % au Burkina Faso (INSD DHS programme, 2021). Il 10,6% Gui...

Public Citizen, representing more than 100,000 consumers nationwide, hereby petitlons the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pursuant to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act 21 U.S.C. Section 355(e)(3), and 2 1 C.F.R. 10.30, to immediately ban the third generation oral contraceptives containing desogestrel due to the approximately doubled risk of venous thrombosis (30 cases for every 100,000...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Epidemiological studies have shown an increased risk of venous thrombosis in women taking third-generation oral contraceptives, ie, those containing the progestogens desogestrel or gestodene. This study assesses the risk of ischemic stroke with several types of oral contraceptives. METHODS A multicenter, population-based, case-control study was performed in 9 Dutch cent...

Background: More than half of unintended pregnancies in Nigeria end induced abortion. Unsafe abortion from contributes significantly to maternal mortality Nigeria. Modern contraceptives have proven useful preventing pregnancy. The health belief model is a comprehensive tool that can be used predict contraceptive behaviour. It provides theoretical framework gives better understanding how individ...