The sexual behaviour and contraceptive practices of a random sample of unmarried university students were compared with those of a group attending the student health service with an unplanned pregnancy. The immediate cause of most pregnancies in this series was incorrect use of a rhythm method. Irregularity of the menstrual cycle may have been a contributing factor in many cases. Psychological ...

Copyright: © 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Background: Effective contraceptive practices amongst HIV-positive women of reproductive age have been shown to reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV by preventing unplanned pregnancies. However, most antiretroviral therapy (ART) programmes focus on treatment,...

The purpose of this study was to investigate factors associated with unplanned pregnancies in Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil. A standardized questionnaire was applied in 2007 to all pregnant women in the city, including demographic characteristics, childbearing history, socioeconomic status, and prenatal and childbirth care. The study used Poisson multivariate regression analysis w...

A follow-up study was performed with 169 women of childbearing age who underwent ultrasound-guided percutaneous microwave ablation (UPMWA) therapy for symptomatic uterine fibroids in the Chinese PLA General Hospital from June 2007 to December 2014. This study aimed to observe the incidence of unplanned pregnancies in these women after UPMWA treatment in order to evaluate its effect on natural c...

458 of 600 questionnaires handed out to women aged 17 to 40 attending the surgery for contraceptive advice were completed, a take-up rate of 76%. The survey revealed a relatively high proportion of young IUD users (15% compared with national figures of approximately 5%). It also showed that the population used contraception reasonable effectively. The proportion of unplanned pregnancies (58%...

This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks of gestation on the quantity and quality of births in the short run. We employ a differences-in-differences approach, a comprehensive administrative register of births and a novel identification strategy based on the planned or unplanned nature of pregnancies that end in births...

Introduction Pregnancies affected with neural tube defects (NTDs) are mostly associated to maternal deficiency of folic acid (FA). Although supplementation is recommended for all women of childbearing age, the incidence of NTDs in Puerto Rico has not shown a significant decrease. Objective The goal of this study was to assess the awareness and level of knowledge of FA supplementation among wo...

Preventing unplanned pregnancies and enabling women and couples to time their childbearing are central public health goals. Exercising this control is a goal of most individuals and has substantial benefits for the health of women and their children. Yet unplanned pregnancy also has societal-level connections to everything from basic demographic patterns to women’s educational attainment to fam...

ably Uganda’s gravest public health issue, unintended pregnancy and unsafe abortion also rank high among serious health problems facing the country. Unplanned births are common and represent a growing proportion of all births— almost 40% in 2000, compared with 29% in 1995. With such high levels of unplanned childbearing, it is likely that abortion is becoming increasingly common in Uganda, even...