An exploratory survey regarding the Maryland Contraceptive Equity Act: clinician awareness and impact on contraception provision.

Access Awareness Contraception Equity Health policy Legislation

Journal

Contraception: X
ISSN: 2590-1516
Titre abrégé: Contracept X
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101767748

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
received: 16 06 2020
revised: 04 12 2021
accepted: 22 12 2021
entrez: 3 2 2022
pubmed: 4 2 2022
medline: 4 2 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

The Maryland Contraceptive Equity Act took effect in January 2018 with the goal of reducing insurance barriers to contraception. We sought to assess the Act's impact on contraceptive provision. From March-August 2019, we emailed an exploratory survey to clinicians providing contraception in Maryland that queried awareness of the Act and changing practices. The survey had a 13% response rate (164/1256 clinicians). Fifty (31%) were aware of the Act. Clinicians rated the Act was somewhat likely to change prescribing practices (3.5/5 point Likert Scale, SD 1.3). The majority of clinicians providing contraception in Maryland are not aware of the Act. If aware of the Act, clinicians may change their contraceptive prescribing practices.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35112076
doi: 10.1016/j.conx.2021.100071
pii: S2590-1516(21)00018-6
pmc: PMC8790273
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

100071

Informations de copyright

© 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Anne Burke reports completed research support from Bayer, pending research support from Scope Intl, and ongoing support from NICHD, all mediated through Johns Hopkins University.

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Auteurs

Aneesha Cheedalla (A)

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America.

Jessica K Lee (JK)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD, United States of America.

Anne E Burke (AE)

Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States of America.

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