Contraceptive use among women Veterans may not be adequately captured using administrative and pharmacy codes. Clinical progress notes may provide a useful alternative. The objectives of this study were to validate the use of administrative and pharmacy codes to identify contraceptive use in Veterans Health Administration data, and to determine the feasibility and validity of identifying contra...

from 515 norplant insertions in four family planning clinics, 138 (26.8%) removals were documented before the completion of 5 years. the duration of implant ranged from 15 days to 48 months. no pregnancy was reported during the study period in those who elected to remove norplant. spotting and irregular bleeding were the most common side effects (93.4%) and the most common reasons for early rem...

BACKGROUND The fertility experience in Iran suggests that the family planning programs had an effective role in the fertility reduction. This study aimed to specify patterns of marriage in Iran and especially in a northern city of Iran and to investigate the association between patterns of marriage and contraceptive use before first pregnancy and current contraceptive use. METHODS In this cro...

Under the influences of economic globalisation, cultural change, public opinion and exposure to new ideas, sexual attitudes and norms have been rapidly changing among adolescents and young people in China and there is emerging evidence from rural and urban areas of increasing premarital sexual activity among adolescents and youth. Despite this, contraceptive practice remains limited and irregul...

Objectives: Sexual health is a very important public health matter for young people. The purpose of this study was to examine contraceptive knowledge and contraceptive attitudes among university students in Korea. Methods/Statistical analysis: As a cross-sectional study, a questionnaire survey was conducted in S university and an investigation carried out by a structured survey of 223 college s...

This report summarizes findings from the 1992-93 National Family Health Survey of India, on fertility and contraceptive use. Fertility declined about 2 children/woman during 1972-92. The total fertility rate in 1992-93 was 3.4 children/woman. The average desired number of children among ever married women aged 13-49 years was 2.9 children/woman. Among the 41% of women who used contraception...

Background: Preordinate attitudes and beliefs about contraception may influence acceptance or rejection of a particular method. Purpose: We examined the attitudes about contraception methods held by undergraduate students (N=792) at two large southeastern universities in the United States. Methods: Twelve methods were rated on 40 semantic differential scales. Means of the scale sum scores for m...

INTRODUCTION In Nigeria about 50% of oral contraceptive pill users obtain their products from proprietary patent medicine vendors (PPMVs). This group of service providers are poorly trained and have very limited knowledge about contraception. This paper investigated the nature of the advice offered to simulated current and potential users of oral contraceptive pills. The main objective was to a...

Sexual education plays an essential role in preventing unplanned pregnancy and the transmission of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). School-based sexual education programs, in particular, may be well positioned to address social factors that are empirically linked to negative sexual health outcomes, such as traditional social norms surrounding gender and sexuality. However, youth are seld...