Preference for Contraceptive Implant Among Women 18–44 years old
Source : https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/whr.2021.0113
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Conclusion: Thus, making all the available contraceptive methods and maintaining access to LARCs would help reduce unintended pregnancies and better serve women and their family planning needs.
What do parents think of using informational videos to support recruitment for parenting trials? A qualitative study - Trials
Source : https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-021-05826-0
Background Lower than expected recruitment and retention rates are common challenges in parenting trials-particularly for community-based trials targeting parents of young children that rely on face-to-face recruitment by frontline workers....
Conclusions: Informational videos are acceptable to parents; however, co-production or participant/patient involvement in the development of such videos is recommended. Informational videos may not increase recruitment but have the potential for improving retention. Key design recommendations are to ensure a ‘professional’ look to the...
Racial disparities in reliable contraceptive use in women with heart disease*
Source : https://doi.org/10.1080/13625187.2021.2010042
Abstract The aim of the study was to investigate the differences in reliable contraceptive use between black women and white women with maternal cardiac disease. The study comprised a retrospective...
Conclusion: Black women with maternal cardiac disease were more likely than white women to receive reliable contraception. Interventions to prevent unintended pregnancy in women with maternal cardiac disease should focus on improving reliable contraceptive use, especially for women with modified WHO class III/IV lesions.
Short-Acting Hormonal Contraception: The Pills, the Patch, and the Rings
Source : https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-70932-7_7
Helena Kopp Kallner Part of the Trends in Andrology and Sexual Medicine book series (TASM) To this day combined hormonal contraception is the most common form of contraception and the...
Evidence shows that combined methods may alleviate symptoms of polycystic ovarian syndrome and premenstrual dysphoric disorder and reduce acne and menstrual bleeding and cramping. In addition, oral combined contraceptive pills have been shown to reduce risk of ovarian, endometrial, and colorectal cancer which outweigh the slightly increased...
Long-acting reversible contraceptive use, active component service women, U.S. Armed Forces, 2016-2020.
Source : https://europepmc.org/article/med/34542257
Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) are highly effective means of birth control that can improve service women's overall health and readiness. This report expands upon prior data and summarizes the annual...
The increased use of LARCs along with their high frequency of continuation in U.S. service women may have a positive impact on overall health and readiness.