Effective contraception can prevent unintended pregnancies, however there is an unmet need for effective contraception in Australia. Despite their being a range of contraceptive methods available, acc...
Our objective was to evaluate changes in the prevalence of emergency contraception counseling and use after policy changes in the United States between 2011 and 2019. This was a serial cross-sectional...
To validate the Person-Centered Contraceptive Counseling (PCCC) patient-reported outcome performance measure and assess for differences by sociodemographic attributes using survey data from a multista...
This analysis explored internal reliability and construct validity of the PCCC using survey data from 1413 patients who visited 15 health centers in Washington state and Massachusetts that had partner...
Multiple psychometric indicators provided evidence of reliability and validity. Significant associations between the highest PCCC rating and conceptually-related survey questions (i.e., experience wit...
Our findings demonstrate that the PCCC is valid and reliable. The results also highlight differences in experience of care by patient-reported race and ethnicity, income level, and language....
Ethiopia has made significant efforts to enhance family planning services despite variations in the community's use of modern contraception in different parts of the country. Various studies have repo...
Five databases (MEDLINE via PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, ScienceDirect, and CINAHL) were searched for papers published from January 2000 up to June 2022 in English. Of thirty eligible studies, eigh...
The overall pooled proportion of adolescents' contraceptive uptake was 40% (...
The proportion of adolescents who used contraception in Ethiopia was 40%. Adolescents' use of contraceptives was influenced by a variety of factors: individual-, sociocultural-, healthcare-, and knowl...
Since 2006, iPLEDGE, a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS), has attempted to prevent fetal exposures in people taking isotretinoin through contraceptive requirements and regular pregnancy t...
To identify the determinants of the unmet need for modern contraceptives in Ethiopia....
Community-based cross-sectional study....
Ethiopia....
A group of 6636 women of reproductive age (15-49 years) who were sexually active were included in the study....
Unmet need for modern contraceptives METHOD: The study used data from the 2019 Performance Monitoring for Action-Ethiopia survey, which was community-based and cross-sectional. The sample consisted of...
The proportion of unmet need for modern contraceptives was 19.7% (95% CI: 18% to 21.5%). Women with supportive norms towards family planning had a lower risk of unmet need for spacing (relative risk r...
High levels of unmet need for modern contraceptives were observed in Ethiopia, showing geographical variations. It is essential to address the key factors affecting women and work towards reducing dis...
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are now being used in a number of dermato-oncological indications. In particular, the approval for adjuvant therapy of high-risk stage IIB/C and III melanoma means t...
This raises the question of how ICIs affect male and female fertility and whether they are teratogenic....
Compilation of current data from the summary of product characteristics (SmPCs) and by literature search (PubMed)....
Immune-related adverse events of ICI can impair fertility in the acute stage, and especially in the case of endocrine side effects, also in the long term. These include hypothyroidism, as well as adre...
Unfortunately, the current data on patient counselling is still very sparse. Scientific studies on the influence of ICI on fertility and teratogenicity are urgently needed....
Women experiencing incarceration have higher rates of unmet contraceptive needs and rates of abortion than the public. Incarceration presents multiple potential barriers to accessing abortion and cont...
We used the Joanna Briggs Institute methodology for scoping reviews and include empirical research with people experiencing criminalization or incarceration and/or with prison staff; with respect to p...
Our search yielded 43 studies published between 2001 and 2021 across six countries. The studies included qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods designs. The main outcomes of interest included co...
Evidence indicates that people in prison face significant barriers to maintaining continuity of contraceptive methods, abortion access, and reproductive health guidance. Some studies articulated parti...
Incarceration presents considerable challenges to the access of contraception and abortion care. Future research should examine the interaction between institutional security policies and procedures o...
Women's engagement in the decision to use contraception, an indicator captured in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS), is frequently used to assess women's reproductive agency. In 2014, DHS added...
The increased risk of venous thromboembolism associated with the use of hormonal contraception is well recognized, but evidence regarding hormonal contraception containing natural estradiol is limited...
All fertile-aged women (15-49 years) living in Finland in 2017 and using hormonal contraception in 2017 and their 1:1 age- and residence-matched controls not using hormonal contraception in 2017 (alto...
Altogether, 1334 venous thromboembolism cases occurred during the follow-up period (incidence rate 1.14 per 1000 person-years, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.08-1.20), with an incidence rate ratio of ...
An increased risk of venous thromboembolism is associated with ethinylestradiol-containing combined preparations. The use of estradiol-containing combined preparations confers only a slightly increase...
