Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) is effective and acceptable. However, concern exists about potential provider bias in LARC promotion. No study has documented contraceptive users' attitudes toward or experiences with provider influence and ...
J. Higgins, Renee D. Kramer, K. Ryder
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Populations Addressed in Vaccines Approved via the European Medicines Agency
Therapeutic and prophylactic agents require robust evidence before patient use. Randomized controlled trials are essential for evaluating safety and efficacy but often exclude specific populations that are also targets for the intervention. This study assessed which populations are included in vaccine registration studies and/or addressed in label ...
Débora D. Gräf+3 more
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Peran perempuan dalam penggunaan alat kontrasepsi
Family planning is a program established by government to minimize the population explosion by preventing pregnancy and child birth. Women are naturally able to conceive and give birth so they become the target of higher contraceptive use than men. Women
Anis Fitriani
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A Comprehensive Study of Gender Bias in Chemical Named Entity Recognition Models [PDF]
Chemical named entity recognition (NER) models are used in many downstream tasks, from adverse drug reaction identification to pharmacoepidemiology. However, it is unknown whether these models work the same for everyone. Performance disparities can potentially cause harm rather than the intended good.
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Estimation of the covariance matrix of random effects in longitudinal studies [PDF]
Longitudinal studies are often conducted to explore the cohort and age effects in many scientific areas. The within cluster correlation structure plays a very important role in longitudinal data analysis. This is because not only can an estimator be improved by incorporating the within cluster correlation structure into the estimation procedure, but ...
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Targeting sexual health services in primary care: a systematic review of the psychosocial correlates of adverse sexual health outcomes reported in probability surveys of women of reproductive age [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Women using primary care vary in need for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) testing and contraception. Psychosocial correlates of these needs may be useful for targeting services. We undertook a systematic review to identify psychosocial
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Fast geostatistical inference under positional uncertainty: Analysing DHS household survey data [PDF]
Household survey data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) Program is published with GPS coordinates. However, almost all geostatistical analyses of such data ignore that the published GPS coordinates are randomly displaced (jittered). In this short report, we develop a geostatistical model that accounts for the positional uncertainty when ...
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Although pregnancy and abortion rates have declined in adolescents, unintended pregnancies remain unacceptably high in this age group. The use of highly effective methods of contraception is one of the pillars of unintended pregnancy prevention and requires a shared decision making process within a rights based framework.
Nicole Todd, Amanda Black
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Relationship Between Method and Duration of Contraception Usage to Subjective Health Complaints
Subjective health complaints is identified is symptoms and uncomfortable feeling felt by the respondents. Health Complaint is the most common cause of acceptor stops using contraception.
Nabella Kusuma
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Sensemaking About Contraceptive Methods Across Online Platforms [PDF]
Selecting a birth control method is a complex healthcare decision. While birth control methods provide important benefits, they can also cause unpredictable side effects and be stigmatized, leading many people to seek additional information online, where they can find reviews, advice, hypotheses, and experiences of other birth control users.
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