Family planning is hailed as one of the great public health achievements of the last century,
and worldwide acceptance has risen to three-fifths of exposed couples. In many countries …

CONTEXT: Each year, nearly one in four US women at risk of unintended pregnancy
experience one or more months of contraceptive nonuse. Understanding what factors are …

Almost all women are at risk for unintended pregnancy throughout their reproductive years.
However, adolescents, formerly married women, and women of low socioeconomic status …

Almost half (49%) of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended: There were 3.1
million in 2001 alone, the last year for which data are available [1]. There has been no …

A common reason for nonuse of modern contraceptives is concern about side effects and
health complications. This article provides a detailed characterization of the belief that …

Context: Current debates on how to reduce the high US abortion rate often fail to take into
account the role of unintended pregnancy, an important determinant of abortion. Methods …

CONTEXT: Unintended pregnancy is a key reproductive health indicator, but rates have
never been calculated for all 50 states. METHODS: State‐level estimates of unintended …

BACKGROUND: The incidence of unintended pregnancy is among the most essential health
status indicators in the field of reproductive health. One ongoing goal of the US Department …

Objectives. We monitored trends in pregnancy by intendedness and outcomes of
unintended pregnancies nationally and for key subgroups between 2001 and 2008 …

Objective This paper seeks to determine factors associated with nonuse of contraception by
women at risk of unintended pregnancy in the United States. This nonuse may be …