The role of unintended pregnancy norms and stigma in contraceptive use among young
women is understudied. This study investigated relationships between anticipated reactions …

Introduction Research in family planning has shown that contraceptive counseling has an
influence on women's family planning outcomes, but also that women are often dissatisfied …

Objectives To understand how relationship status influences contraceptive use among
young people. Study Design Data were collected as part of a longitudinal study on hormonal …

Objective This study examines changes over time in the prevalence of select sexual
behaviors and contraceptive use measures in a national sample of US adolescents. Study …

OBJECTIVE: To identify factors related to consistency between women's “most important”
reason for using contraception and their current contraceptive method. METHODS: A sample …

Objectives The study examined how clinicians described their patients in relation to their
practices of contraceptive counseling. Study design This qualitative study involved individual …

Background Contraceptive use is often a multi-decade experience for people who can
become pregnant, yet few studies have assessed how this ongoing process impacts …

Context: Despite widespread efforts to increase contraceptive use to prevent both pregnancy
and sexually transmitted diseases among sexually active adolescents, most prior work …

Objective To explore perspectives on family planning among young people who perceive
they are infertile or will have difficulty carrying a pregnancy to term owing to medical …

Recent efforts to involve patients more actively in therapeutic decisions have suggested the
relevance of computer-based interventions at clinic visits. This paper presents a longitudinal …