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Intention to Use Contraceptives and Subsequent Contraceptive Behavior in Morocco

Studies in Family Planning, 1996
In this article, the relationship between stated intention to use contraceptives and subsequent use during a three-year period in Morocco is examined. Longitudinal data are drawn from two Demographic and Health Surveys: the 1992 Morocco DHS and the 1995 Morocco Panel Survey.
S L, Curtis, C F, Westoff
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Effects of Contraceptive Education on Adolescent Male Contraceptive Behavior and Attitudes

Health Education, 1989
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between contraceptive education and adolescent male contraceptive behavior and attitudes. A limitation of the study is that a convenience sample of 6 high schools was used to collect data.
M E, Taylor   +3 more
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Sexual and Contraceptive Behaviors among Adolescents Requesting Emergency Contraception

Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, 2016
Unintended pregnancy rates in the United States remain high among adolescents. Emergency contraception (EC) provides the only option for pregnancy prevention after unprotected sex. To better define the population of adolescents who request and use EC pills, we performed a post hoc analysis of an over-the-counter simulation study of EC pills.Teen ...
Carrie Cwiak   +4 more
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Contraceptive Behaviors in Adolescents

Pediatric Annals, 2005
A wide range of factors influence adolescents' contraceptive behaviors, from personal characteristics to family context to social support to knowledge about and access to contraception. Improving knowledge about contraception and counseling about successful contraceptive use can be helpful in decreasing the remarkably high US rates of adolescent ...
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Contraceptive choices for behaviorally disordered women

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 1993
Women with psychologic disturbances of depression, anxiety, or thought disorganization pose a special management problem when providing a safe and effective means of contraception. The difficulty is compounded by the fact that many mentally disturbed women also abuse drugs.
L D, Hankoff, P D, Darney
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Adolescent contraceptive behavior: A review.

Psychological Bulletin, 1985
This review examines the psychologically oriented literature on adolescent contraceptive use. Descriptive studies individual difference studies and theory-based studies from family planning medical and applied journals are covered as well as studies appearing in psychology journals. The findings indicate that many teenagers are startlingly uninformed
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Cognitive Analysis of Contraceptive Behavior

Image: the Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 1988
This paper presents a new approach to contraceptive behavior–an approach that draws on research and theory in the areas of memory and information processing. The approach generates a model for predicting both pregnancy risk taking and risk‐avoidance behaviors.
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Health care provider and contraceptive care setting: The relationship to contraceptive behavior

Contraception, 1989
This study examines contraceptive delivery characteristics and their association with contraceptive behavior. Data were collected in telephone interviews from a national sample of 1057 women who were using female contraceptives. The overwhelming majority of the sample obtained contraceptive services from gynecologists and other physician specialists ...
S M, Harvey, L J, Beckman, J, Murray
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The Effect of Contraceptive Knowledge Source upon Knowledge Accuracy and Contraceptive Behavior

Health Education, 1985
(1985). The Effect of Contraceptive Knowledge Source upon Knowledge Accuracy and Contraceptive Behavior. Health Education: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 41-44.
A J, Pope, C, Westerfield, J, Walker
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