There is a dearth of research examining the couple characteristics in determining contractive utilization behavior in developing countries. This study fills the gap by analyzing the roles of women's i...
A sample of 13,331, excluding pregnant and sexually inactive married women aged 15-49, was extracted from the Pakistan Demographic and Health Survey 2017-18. The dataset is cross-sectional. Explorator...
Only 33% of women use contraceptives, while 30% express an intention to use contraceptives in the future. Almost all women (98%) knew about modern contraceptives. Compared to same-age couples, higher ...
Findings underscore the importance of considering the couple's characteristics in reproductive healthcare programming and policies....
Greater women's intra-household bargaining power and smaller spousal age differences are associated with higher contraceptive usage. Empowering women and promoting their decision-making authority with...
Texas is one of 24 states that restricts minors' ability to obtain contraception without parental consent, unless they access confidential services at federally funded Title X clinics. This study expl...
Between September 2020 and June 2021, we conducted in-depth phone interviews with 28 minors aged 15-17 years. Participants were recruited via the text line and Instagram account of an organization tha...
Participants wanted to be proactive about preventing pregnancy by using more effective contraceptive methods but faced resistance from adults when they initiated conversations about sex and contracept...
Minors in Texas faced a range of barriers to finding accurate information and obtaining confidential contraceptive services, which were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Expanding options for acce...
All methods of contraception used by a cisgender woman can theoretically be used by a transgender man. In practice, some contraceptives can aggravate gender dysphoria and should be discarded. On the o...
Rates of unintended pregnancy are higher in women living with HIV than in those without HIV. The World Health Organization and the Canadian HIV Pregnancy Planning Guidelines recommend preventing unint...
We conducted a retrospective chart review including all women living with HIV followed by the Oak Tree Clinic who had a live birth between 1 January 2014 and 15 September 2019. The main objective was ...
Of the 110 participants included, 79% were using contraception within 3 months PP. The most common contraception methods used were an intrauterine device in 22% of participants followed by depot-medro...
The majority of women were using contraception within 3 months PP. Having a contraception plan resulted in a high rate of contraception use. Women living with HIV should have a PP contraception plan p...
To assess factors associated with post-abortion contraceptive discontinuation....
This cross-sectional study addressed 111 women aged 18-49 attending Primary Health Care Facilities in São Paulo/SP, Aracaju/SE, and Cuiabá/MT, Brazil, who reported an abortion five years before the in...
Oral hormonal contraceptives, male condoms, and injectable contraceptives were the methods most frequently used. The contraceptive discontinuation rate was 41.8% in the 12 months after the abortion. T...
Short-acting contraceptive methods were predominant among post-abortion women. The type of discontinuation varied according to the type of method used. The factors associated with contraceptive discon...
Permanent contraception through tubal sterilization is the preferred contraceptive method for 25% of women in the United States. Laparoscopic permanent contraception has an anecdotally high cancellati...
We performed a retrospective chart review of patients aged 18 to 50 who canceled or no-showed a scheduled laparoscopic permanent contraception surgery between May 2016 and May 2019 at an academic tert...
The overall surgery cancellation rate for scheduled laparoscopic permanent contraception was 22% (123 of 558). Short-notice cancellation occurred for 71.5% of patients and 32.5% (40 of 123) canceled s...
Among patients who canceled their laparoscopic permanent contraception, the vast majority canceled their surgery a week or less from their scheduled date. These short-notice cancellations may adversel...
Our retrospective cohort study found that laparoscopic permanent contraception surgeries have an overall high cancellation rate at both an academic tertiary and an academic county hospital, with most ...
Today, as access to women's reproductive health care in the United States has proven less than ensured, it behooves scholars of public health to explore how US medical contraceptive care was successfu...
This study aimed to analyze the impact of contraceptives on medical students at the Federal University of Paraná and verify adherence, consequences, and lifestyle effects of the contraceptive method u...
This is an observational, cross-sectional study in which 214 participants answered an online questionnaire composed of 30 questions. For statistical analysis, the Stata® 16.0 software was used, and th...
Almost 10% (9.3%) of women used condoms only, and double protection (condom+oral contraceptives) corresponds to 23.4%. Of the 214 participants, 38 reported making exclusive use of long-acting reversib...
There was a great diversity of combinations between contraceptive methods used by the medical student at Federal University of Paraná, the most prevalent being the oral contraceptive associated with m...
To evaluate the association between Medicaid insurance and fulfillment of postpartum permanent contraception requests....
We conducted a retrospective cohort study of 43,915 patients across four study sites in four states, of whom 3,013 (7.1%) had a documented contraceptive plan of permanent contraception at the time of ...
Patients with Medicaid insurance (1,096/2,076, 52.8%), compared with those with private insurance (663/937, 70.8%), were less likely to receive desired permanent contraception before hospital discharg...
Differences in fulfillment rates of postpartum permanent contraception are observable between patients with Medicaid insurance and patients with private insurance after adjustment for clinical and dem...
Unmet need plays a critical role in reproductive health research, evaluation, and advocacy. Although conceptually straightforward, its estimation suffers from a number of methodological limitations, m...
