Increased contraceptive use one year post-abortion

U.S. women's one-year contraceptive use patterns, 2004.

CONTEXT Unintended pregnancies occur far too often in the United States, and half occur when couples fail to practice contraception. Improved measures of the continuity of women's contraceptive use, nonuse and switching patterns can help identify ways to reduce unintended pregnancy. METHODS A nationally representative sample of 1,978 adult women at risk of unintended pregnancy was surveyed by...

Abortion Context and Women's Contraceptive Use.

Abortion patients in 1994-1995: characteristics and contraceptive use.

Results of a 1994-1995 national survey of 9,985 abortion patients reveal that women who live with a partner outside marriage or have no religious identification are 3.5-4.0 times as likely as women in the general population to have an abortion. Nonwhites, women aged 18-24, Hispanics, separated and never-married women, and those who have an annual income of less than +15,000 or who are enrolled ...

Abortion, contraceptive use, and adolescent pregnancy among first-year medical students at a major public university in Mexico City.

OBJECTIVE If properly trained, medical students could become future opinion leaders in health policy and could help the public to understand the consequences of unwanted pregnancies and of abortions. The objective of this study was to analyze the frequency of unwanted pregnancies and induced abortions that had occurred among women who were first-year medical students at a major public universit...

Impact of post-abortion family planning services on contraceptive use and abortion rate among young women in China: a cluster randomised trial.

OBJECTIVES To compare two post-abortion family planning (FP) service packages on contraceptive use and repeat abortion rate among young women in three cities in China. METHODS In this cluster-randomized trial, one FP service package included provision of limited information and referral to existing FP services, and the other, more comprehensive, package consisted--in addition to the above sim...