Showing papers in "Contraception in 2013"

TL;DR: Data indicate that providers of contraceptive counseling can participate in the decision-making process within limits, and differences in preferences seen by race/ethnicity illustrate the importance of individualizing counseling to match women's preferences.

TL;DR: Imperfect contraceptive adherence leads to substantial UP and high, avoidable costs, and improved uptake of LARC may generate health care cost savings by reducing contraceptive non-adherence.

TL;DR: Early medical abortion with mifepristone 200 mg followed by misoprostol is highly effective and safe and explored potential correlates of abortion failure.

TL;DR: Structured contraceptive counseling can be effectively provided in a clinical research setting by staff without prior health care experience or clinical training.

TL;DR: A brief summary of the pharmacology of EE and E₂, including metabolism, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics, as well as adverse effects of these estrogens are provided.

TL;DR: It is hoped that the introduction of new methods with additional health benefits would help women and couples with unmet needs to obtain access to a wider range of contraceptives with improved acceptability.

TL;DR: In new users, DRSP was associated with higher risk of thrombotic events (VTE and ATE) relative to low-dose estrogen comparator CHCs, while the use of the NGMN patch and ETON vaginal ring was not.

TL;DR: It can be concluded that existing methods used today for EC act mainly through inhibition of ovulation or prevention of fertilization, including the copper intrauterine device (Cu-IUD).

TL;DR: Improvements are needed in contraceptive information and services as well as in contraceptive methods themselves to increase couples' success in achieving their desired timing and number of children.

TL;DR: In this paper, the feasibility, reach and potential behavioral impact of providing automated family planning information via mobile phones to the general public in Tanzania was evaluated using data collected from users of the Mobile for Reproductive Health (m4RH) program.

TL;DR: Although no EC treatment is 100% effective in inhibiting follicular rupture when administered in the late follicular phase, UPA is the most effective treatment, delaying ovulation for at least 5 days in 59% of the cycles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the change in body weight over the first 12 months of use between women using the etonogestrel (ENG) implant, the levonorgestrel intrauterine system (LNG-IUS) or depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) with women using a copper intra-uterine device (IUD).

TL;DR: OKQ establishes a new category of preventive services – preventive reproductive health using the frame of contraception as a preventive strategy fits it squarely in the national conversation of high-quality primary care.

TL;DR: The beneficial effects of OC use on cancer outweighed the adverse effects and should reassure older women who used OCs in the past.

TL;DR: An algorithm for treating postabortion hemorrhage is proposed as follows: assessment and exam, massage and medical therapy, resuscitative measures with laboratory evaluation and possible re-aspiration or balloon tamponade, and interventions such as embolization and surgery.

TL;DR: Further research is needed to identify physician practices, AYA preferences and strategies for communication that can pave the way to establishing guidelines to discuss reproductive health complications in oncology settings.

TL;DR: It is shown that young women with elevated depression and stress symptoms appear to be at risk for inconsistent contraceptive use patterns, especially for the most common methods that require greater user effort and diligence.

TL;DR: The main advantages of CVRs are their effectiveness, ease of use without the need of remembering a daily routine, user ability to control initiation and discontinuation, nearly constant release rate allowing for lower doses, greater bioavailability and good cycle control with the combined ring, in comparison with oral contraceptives.

TL;DR: The principles of harm reduction — neutrality, humanism and pragmatism — present a conceptual framework for making misoprostol information and care available directly to women and make the case for why it is imperative to do so.

TL;DR: The paradox is that although many highly trained, legitimate physicians provide abortion care, abortion providers continue to be depicted as illegitimate, deviant or substandard doctors.

TL;DR: US women are supportive of OTC access to O CPs, and many would obtain refills OTC or start using OCPs if they were available OTC, according to a nationwide survey of adult women at risk of unintended pregnancy.

TL;DR: Fair-quality evidence suggests that among women who were followed beyond 3 months after hysteroscopic sterilization, pregnancies were rare and generally occurred among womenWho had no imaging follow-up or had inadequate confirmation of placement or occlusion.

TL;DR: The decision-making process associated with induced abortion in Ghana is understood and women who choose to terminate a pregnancy without their male partners' knowledge should have the means to do so safely.

TL;DR: The two most likely important contributors to the increase in Pearl indices are more frequent pregnancy testing with more sensitive tests and less adherent study populations.

TL;DR: Not being able to afford a baby, not being ready for children, feeling that having a baby would interrupt their goals and wanting to maintain control in their lives were the most commonly reported very important reasons for using contraception.

TL;DR: The current evidence on the use of postabortion family planning counseling and services in low-income countries to address the problem of unsafe abortion is inconclusive, but the increase in acceptance and/or use of contraceptives is encouraging and has the potential to be further explored.

TL;DR: Men of color were less likely than Whites to have heard of most contraceptive methods, including female and male sterilization, and also had lower knowledge about hormonal and long-acting reversible methods as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Barriers must be overcome for full implementation of professional LARC guidelines and for more women to receive chosen methods without the extra burden of multiple visits, according to experts.

TL;DR: In comparison with the CMM, the EHFM method of family planning was more effective and all users had an increase in acceptability over time.

TL;DR: Three fair-quality studies showed no difference in clinical or laboratory outcomes among women who retained IUDs when compared with women who had Iuds removed, and two studies showed that women whoHad IUDS removed had longer hospitalizations, while one fair quality study showed improved clinical signs and symptoms among womenWho had IUD's removed.