PURPOSE: To estimate trends in use and nonuse of effective protection among adolescents
1991–2003, and to assess factors associated with poorly protected sex in 2003. METHODS …

PURPOSE: To describe patterns and changes in contraceptive use among pregnant
adolescents in early and later postpartum compared with nonpregnant adolescents …

Qualitative interviews with young women attending community colleges were used to
address why women who do not desire pregnancy vary in how consistently they use …

ABSTRACT CONTEXT Understanding how women's preferences for certain attributes of
contraceptive methods relate to their method choice can inform the content of contraceptive …

OBJECTIVE: To present new data on sexual initiation, contraceptive use, and pregnancy
among US adolescents aged 10 to 19, and to compare the youngest adolescents' behaviors …

Objectives Parent-adolescent communication about sexuality has been shown to influence
adolescents' sexual behaviour. This study aims to describe communication about sex …

Assessed condom use, barriers to condom use, oral contraceptive use, partnership status
and STD history in 457 15-30 year-old women attending four family planning clinics …

The purpose of this study was to examine those factors associated with the contraceptive
behavior of a national representative sample of Hispanic female adolescents. The subjects …

In 1979, 50 percent of women aged 15-19 and 70 percent of men aged 17-21 living in
metropolitan areas of the United States reported that they had ever had sexual intercourse …

PURPOSE: To evaluate the effectiveness of a youth-friendly intervention in promoting one
safe sex behavior—contraception and condom use among unmarried young people aged …