Contraception is widely used in the United States, with an estimated 88.2% of all women ages 15 to 44 years using at least one form of contraception during their lifetime. 1 Among women who could become pregnant but don't wish to do so, 90% use some form of contraception. 2 Thus, nurses in various settings are likely to encounter patients who are using contraception while presenting for a ...
A qualitative exploration of contraceptive use and discontinuation
Addressing the unmet need for modern contraception underpins the goal of all family planning and contraception programs. Contraceptive discontinuation among those in need of a method hinders the attainment of the fertility desires of women, which may result in unintended pregnancies. This paper presents experiences of contraceptive use, reasons for discontinuation, and future intentions to use ...
(PDF) Factors influencing contraception choice and use globally: a
Findings We found 24 systematic reviews of mostly moderate or high quality. Factors affecting contraception use are remarkably similar among women in very different cultures and settings globally ...
Women's Contraceptive Perceptions, Beliefs, and Attitudes: An
Women interact with contraception within discourses of power relations and gender norms. Nonhormonal methods of contraception and having control over one's contraception, including the ability to freely stop and start, are important to many women. Health care providers have a great opportunity to improve reproductive health and communication through awareness of power imbalances and the use of ...
Improving access to and use of contraception by adolescents: What
In relation to contraceptive uptake by adolescents, there was a 29% increase in contraceptive use by married adolescent girls aged 15-19 (2000-2016), a 38% increase in postpartum contraceptive use in the same group (2005-2016), and 3.8% decrease in teenagers who have begun childbearing between 2000 and 2016 (See Fig. 3).
U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2016
Summary. The 2016 U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (U.S. SPR) addresses a select group of common, yet sometimes controversial or complex, issues regarding initiation and use of specific contraceptive methods.These recommendations for health care providers were updated by CDC after review of the scientific evidence and consultation with national experts who met in ...
Factors influencing contraception choice and use globally: a synthesis
Contraception use depends upon the availability of methods, accessibility, confidentiality, and costs of health services. Health service availability influences contraceptive use globally ... More research is needed on men's perspectives, and those of other family members. Evidence about factors such as cultural and social norms is sparser ...
Assessing contraceptive use as a continuum: outcomes of a qualitative
A person's contraceptive journey occurred in four phases: (a) identification of the need for contraception (either to obtain a method or a decision to begin use); (b) the process of initiation/method selection; (c) experiences with a method during use; (d) cessation and decisions to stop use.Each phase of the process is the result of a series of decisions and experiences that were often ...
Values and preferences for contraception: A global systematic review
Research has particularly focused on the effect of counseling in moving women from an intention to use oral contraceptive pills to trying another method, such as the patch or ring [20,21,56]. Ten articles came from one large multicountry study: the Contraceptive Health Research Of Informed Choice Experience (CHOICE) study [20-29]. The CHOICE ...
Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use
This document is part of the process for improving the quality of care in family planning. Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use (MEC), the first edition of which was published in 1996, presents current WHO guidance on the safety of various contraceptive methods for use in the context of specific health conditions and characteristics.
Measuring contraceptive method mix, prevalence, and demand satisfied by
The dominance of one contraceptive method in some locations raises the question of whether family planning policies should aim to expand method mix or invest in making existing methods more accessible. Lower rates of demand satisfied among women aged 15-24 years are also concerning because unintended pregnancies before age 25 years can forestall or eliminate education and employment ...
Use and awareness of emergency contraceptives among women of
Emergency contraception (EC) is a method used to avoid pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourse. Emergency contraceptives can reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy by up to over 95% when taken within 72 h of sexual intercourse. EC is helpful to women who have experienced method failure, incorrect use of contraceptives, raped or have consented to unplanned, and unprotected sexual ...
Use of traditional and modern contraceptives among childbearing women
Contraceptive use has numerous health benefits such as preventing unplanned pregnancies, ensuring optimum spacing between births, reducing maternal and child mortality, and improving the lives of women and children in general. This study examines the level of contraceptive use, its determinants, reasons for non-use of contraception among women in the reproductive age group (18-49 years ...
Level of knowledge, attitude, and practice on modern contraceptive
Contraception is widely recognized as an effective technique for avoiding unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Promoting contemporary contraceptive methods would minimize the number of unplanned pregnancies and the high number of maternal fatalities connected with unsafe abortions. This study aims to assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice of modern ...
Family planning/contraception methods
Key facts. Among the 1.9 billion women of reproductive age group (15-49 years) worldwide in 2021, 1.1 billion have a need for family planning; of these, 874 million are using modern contraceptive methods, and 164 million have an unmet need for contraception (1).; The proportion of the need for family planning satisfied by modern methods, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator 3.7.1 ...
Full article: Contraception use and attitudes: women's concerns
Contraceptive use (2 questions): methods used during the most recent intercourse and emergency contraceptive usage. Experience of STIs (1 question): yes or no. ... Qualitative research regarding the reasons behind concerns is also needed to raise awareness on attitudes towards contraception and contraceptive counselling. Although this study ...
Contraception
It is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of infertility. Contraceptive information and services are fundamental to the health and human rights of all individuals. The prevention of unintended pregnancies helps to lower maternal ill-health and the number of pregnancy-related deaths.
PDF Contraceptive use, knowledge, attitude, perceptions and sexual behavior
data on socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge, perceptions and attitudes and use of contraceptives, as well as other sexual and reproductive health practices. Users of any contraceptive method in the past 12 months were coded as '1' and none users as '0'. The prevalence of contraceptive use was determined as the number of users
Association between knowledge and use of contraceptive among women of
An expanded sampling methodology has been highlighted in the literature. 26 Well-trained research assistants used structured questionnaires to collect data from the respondents on several health and demographic issues including contraceptive knowledge and use. 26 A weighted sample of 200,498 women of reproductive age (15-49 years) who were ...
PDF CHAPTER TWO Theoretical Framework and Literature Review
This chapter presents a review of the literature on the utilisation of health facilities and use of contraceptives among young women worldwide. Special attention is paid to contraceptive use and health facilities utilisation in Africa and, in particular, sub-Saharan Africa. Utilisation of health facilities is one of the important aspects ...
Improving Contraceptive Use and Acceptability
Providers play a vital role in influencing both uptake rates and continuation rates of contraceptive method use. Thus, research that determines which service delivery practices are effective for increasing acceptance and use of contraceptives would be useful as well. Recommendation 9: During the development of drugs and drug delivery systems ...
Pressing Issues Around Contraception Access Following the Repeal of Roe
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Health care and contraceptive decision-making autonomy and use of
Introduction: Female sterilisation is the most common contraceptive method used globally. The use of female sterilisation is disproportionately low in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) at just 1%. Nonetheless, the prevalence of sterilisation among married women in Malawi is quite high at about 11%. While a few recent studies in SSA have examined the relationship between women's decision-making autonomy ...
Assessing the Factors That Affect the Use of Modern Contraceptive
Background The attainment of targets set for modern contraceptive use remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. Rwanda, in its new Family Planning and Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health/Family ...
How Dobbs Changed Contraception Choices
Schardein's study investigated national trends in the use of permanent contraception before and after the Dobbs ruling. She and her colleagues analyzed data from the Epic Cosmos database of more ...
Could Birth Control Pills Prevent Muscle Injuries?
A recent study found that females who use oral contraceptives are less likely to get muscle and tendon injuries. While more research is needed to understand how oral contraceptive use might reduce ...
Migration of etonogestrel subcutaneous contraceptive implants
This systematic review documents and characterises 148 cases of vascular and extravascular etonogestrel contraceptive implant migration. Healthcare professionals must be aware of this rare but serious complication and be adequately trained to insert and remove contraceptive implants.
A Proclamation on Women's Health Week, 2024
Women comprise more than half our population, but women's health is understudied, and its research is vastly underfunded. Too many of our medications, treatments, and textbooks are instead based ...
COMMENTS
Contraception is widely used in the United States, with an estimated 88.2% of all women ages 15 to 44 years using at least one form of contraception during their lifetime. 1 Among women who could become pregnant but don't wish to do so, 90% use some form of contraception. 2 Thus, nurses in various settings are likely to encounter patients who are using contraception while presenting for a ...
Addressing the unmet need for modern contraception underpins the goal of all family planning and contraception programs. Contraceptive discontinuation among those in need of a method hinders the attainment of the fertility desires of women, which may result in unintended pregnancies. This paper presents experiences of contraceptive use, reasons for discontinuation, and future intentions to use ...
Findings We found 24 systematic reviews of mostly moderate or high quality. Factors affecting contraception use are remarkably similar among women in very different cultures and settings globally ...
Women interact with contraception within discourses of power relations and gender norms. Nonhormonal methods of contraception and having control over one's contraception, including the ability to freely stop and start, are important to many women. Health care providers have a great opportunity to improve reproductive health and communication through awareness of power imbalances and the use of ...
In relation to contraceptive uptake by adolescents, there was a 29% increase in contraceptive use by married adolescent girls aged 15-19 (2000-2016), a 38% increase in postpartum contraceptive use in the same group (2005-2016), and 3.8% decrease in teenagers who have begun childbearing between 2000 and 2016 (See Fig. 3).
Summary. The 2016 U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use (U.S. SPR) addresses a select group of common, yet sometimes controversial or complex, issues regarding initiation and use of specific contraceptive methods.These recommendations for health care providers were updated by CDC after review of the scientific evidence and consultation with national experts who met in ...
Contraception use depends upon the availability of methods, accessibility, confidentiality, and costs of health services. Health service availability influences contraceptive use globally ... More research is needed on men's perspectives, and those of other family members. Evidence about factors such as cultural and social norms is sparser ...
A person's contraceptive journey occurred in four phases: (a) identification of the need for contraception (either to obtain a method or a decision to begin use); (b) the process of initiation/method selection; (c) experiences with a method during use; (d) cessation and decisions to stop use.Each phase of the process is the result of a series of decisions and experiences that were often ...
Research has particularly focused on the effect of counseling in moving women from an intention to use oral contraceptive pills to trying another method, such as the patch or ring [20,21,56]. Ten articles came from one large multicountry study: the Contraceptive Health Research Of Informed Choice Experience (CHOICE) study [20-29]. The CHOICE ...
This document is part of the process for improving the quality of care in family planning. Medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use (MEC), the first edition of which was published in 1996, presents current WHO guidance on the safety of various contraceptive methods for use in the context of specific health conditions and characteristics.
The dominance of one contraceptive method in some locations raises the question of whether family planning policies should aim to expand method mix or invest in making existing methods more accessible. Lower rates of demand satisfied among women aged 15-24 years are also concerning because unintended pregnancies before age 25 years can forestall or eliminate education and employment ...
Emergency contraception (EC) is a method used to avoid pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourse. Emergency contraceptives can reduce the risk of unintended pregnancy by up to over 95% when taken within 72 h of sexual intercourse. EC is helpful to women who have experienced method failure, incorrect use of contraceptives, raped or have consented to unplanned, and unprotected sexual ...
Contraceptive use has numerous health benefits such as preventing unplanned pregnancies, ensuring optimum spacing between births, reducing maternal and child mortality, and improving the lives of women and children in general. This study examines the level of contraceptive use, its determinants, reasons for non-use of contraception among women in the reproductive age group (18-49 years ...
Contraception is widely recognized as an effective technique for avoiding unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Promoting contemporary contraceptive methods would minimize the number of unplanned pregnancies and the high number of maternal fatalities connected with unsafe abortions. This study aims to assess the level of knowledge, attitude, and practice of modern ...
Key facts. Among the 1.9 billion women of reproductive age group (15-49 years) worldwide in 2021, 1.1 billion have a need for family planning; of these, 874 million are using modern contraceptive methods, and 164 million have an unmet need for contraception (1).; The proportion of the need for family planning satisfied by modern methods, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicator 3.7.1 ...
Contraceptive use (2 questions): methods used during the most recent intercourse and emergency contraceptive usage. Experience of STIs (1 question): yes or no. ... Qualitative research regarding the reasons behind concerns is also needed to raise awareness on attitudes towards contraception and contraceptive counselling. Although this study ...
It is achieved through use of contraceptive methods and the treatment of infertility. Contraceptive information and services are fundamental to the health and human rights of all individuals. The prevention of unintended pregnancies helps to lower maternal ill-health and the number of pregnancy-related deaths.
data on socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge, perceptions and attitudes and use of contraceptives, as well as other sexual and reproductive health practices. Users of any contraceptive method in the past 12 months were coded as '1' and none users as '0'. The prevalence of contraceptive use was determined as the number of users
An expanded sampling methodology has been highlighted in the literature. 26 Well-trained research assistants used structured questionnaires to collect data from the respondents on several health and demographic issues including contraceptive knowledge and use. 26 A weighted sample of 200,498 women of reproductive age (15-49 years) who were ...
This chapter presents a review of the literature on the utilisation of health facilities and use of contraceptives among young women worldwide. Special attention is paid to contraceptive use and health facilities utilisation in Africa and, in particular, sub-Saharan Africa. Utilisation of health facilities is one of the important aspects ...
Providers play a vital role in influencing both uptake rates and continuation rates of contraceptive method use. Thus, research that determines which service delivery practices are effective for increasing acceptance and use of contraceptives would be useful as well. Recommendation 9: During the development of drugs and drug delivery systems ...
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Introduction: Female sterilisation is the most common contraceptive method used globally. The use of female sterilisation is disproportionately low in sub-Sahara Africa (SSA) at just 1%. Nonetheless, the prevalence of sterilisation among married women in Malawi is quite high at about 11%. While a few recent studies in SSA have examined the relationship between women's decision-making autonomy ...
Background The attainment of targets set for modern contraceptive use remains a challenge in sub-Saharan Africa. Rwanda, in its new Family Planning and Adolescent Sexual Reproductive Health/Family ...
Schardein's study investigated national trends in the use of permanent contraception before and after the Dobbs ruling. She and her colleagues analyzed data from the Epic Cosmos database of more ...
A recent study found that females who use oral contraceptives are less likely to get muscle and tendon injuries. While more research is needed to understand how oral contraceptive use might reduce ...
This systematic review documents and characterises 148 cases of vascular and extravascular etonogestrel contraceptive implant migration. Healthcare professionals must be aware of this rare but serious complication and be adequately trained to insert and remove contraceptive implants.
Women comprise more than half our population, but women's health is understudied, and its research is vastly underfunded. Too many of our medications, treatments, and textbooks are instead based ...