Is a previous unplanned pregnancy a risk factor for a subsequent unplanned pregnancy?

Clozapine treatment and risk of unplanned pregnancy.

With recent advances in the medical treatment of chronic psychiatric patients who are capable of living productive lives in their communities, follow-up of these patients is often carried out by their family physicians. These family physicians are also generally responsible for family planning. Many schizophrenic patients have preserved sex drives, but their judgments and responsibilities with ...

Policy Solutions for Preventing Unplanned Pregnancy

Risk factors for unplanned pregnancy among young women in Tanzania

BACKGROUND With effective contraceptives available, unplanned pregnancies are preventable and educational interventions have been cited as a promising platform to increase contraceptive use through improving knowledge. However, results from trials of educational interventions have been disappointing. In order to effectively target future interventions, this study aimed to identify risk factors ...

Conceptualisation, development, and evaluation of a measure of unplanned pregnancy.

STUDY OBJECTIVE To develop a measure of unplanned pregnancy that is valid, reliable, and appropriate in the context of contemporary demographic trends and social mores and can be used in a variety of situations, including the production of population prevalence estimates. DESIGN A two stage study design: qualitative (inductive) methods to delineate the construct of pregnancy planning, and qua...

Unplanned pregnancy in a woman with Crohn disease.

Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and bowel resection might experience reduced effectiveness from oral contraceptive agents. We report a case of a woman with Crohn disease who became pregnant while compliant with her combined oral contraceptive pill (OCP) regimen. Patients with Crohn disease have a greater risk of contraceptive failure because the diseased bowel causes increased pa...