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Unintended pregnancy and preterm birth

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2000
About one‐third of all pregnancies that result in live births in the US are unintended. Despite the large number of these births, little is known about the outcomes of unintended pregnancies. The purpose of the current study was to evaluate the association between intendedness of pregnancy and preterm birth in a large prospective cohort of women who ...
S T, Orr, C A, Miller, S A, James, S, Babones   +3 more
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Caring for Women with Unintended Pregnancies

Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 2011
Unintended pregnancy is a common reproductive health event. Professional responsibilities for nurses providing care to women with unintended pregnancies include appropriate assessment, options counseling, provision of or referral for desired services, care coordination, and prevention efforts aimed at decreasing future unintended pregnancies.
Katherine, Simmonds, Frances E, Likis
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Unintended Pregnancy and Taxpayer Spending

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2011
CONTEXT: Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended. These pregnancies likely represent a substantial cost to taxpayers, but national‐level estimates of these public costs have been lacking. METHODS: Taxpayer spending on unintended pregnancy is measured by multiplying estimates of the 2001 incidence ...
Emily, Monea, Adam, Thomas
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The Measurement and Meaning of Unintended Pregnancy

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2003
Unintended pregnancy combines two aspects of fertility: unwanted and mistimed pregnancies. The personal partnership social and political realities of these two aspects are different and the use of separate categories may better reflect the way women think about a pregnancy.
John, Santelli, Roger, Rochat, Kendra, Hatfield-Timajchy, Brenda Colley, Gilbert, Kathryn, Curtis, Rebecca, Cabral, Jennifer S, Hirsch, Laura, Schieve   +7 more
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Preventing unintended teenage pregnancies

Public Health, 1993
A review of the literature on unplanned and teenage pregnancies was undertaken for four District Health Authorities. This work was carried out within a national context of increasing conception rates for teenage women aged 16 and under and in the knowledge that pregnant teenagers and their children tend to have poor life chances.
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Late Recognition of Unintended Pregnancies

Public Health Nursing, 2015
AbstractObjectiveLate recognition of pregnancy and unintended pregnancy has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes such as preterm birth, low birth weight, and admission to neonatal care. This study examined the factors associated with late recognition of pregnancy among women reporting unintended pregnancy.Design and SampleA secondary ...
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Unintended Pregnancy in the United States

Family Planning Perspectives, 1998
Current debates on how to reduce the high U.S. abortion rate often fail to take into account the role of unintended pregnancy, an important determinant of abortion.Data from the 1982, 1988 and 1995 cycles of the National Survey of Family Growth, supplemented by data from other sources, are used to estimate 1994 rates and percentages of unintended birth
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Preventing Unintended Pregnancy

The Journal for Nurse Practitioners, 2009
Abstract This article explores techniques that nurse practitioners (NPs) can incorporate into their current practice to reduce a woman's risk for unintended pregnancy. NPs facilitate an open dialogue with female patients to assess their reproductive needs and determine their risk for unintended pregnancy. They promote satisfaction with a birth control
Mary J. McEneaney, Gretchen A. Hong
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Unintended Pregnancy in America and Abroad

Family Planning Perspectives, 1988
U.S. women under age 25 are far more likely to become pregnant than are comparable young women in other developed countries; however, there is no such differential among older women. Young American women appear to be no more likely than their European contemporaries to marry or to engage in intercourse at a young age, but they do seem less likely to ...
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Predictors of unintended pregnancy in women with epilepsy

Neurology, 2017
To determine whether rates of unintended pregnancy in women with epilepsy (WWE) vary by contraceptive category and when stratified by antiepileptic drug (AED) category.These retrospective data come from the Epilepsy Birth Control Registry (EBCR) web-based survey of 1,144 WWE in the community, 18-47 years of age, who provided demographic, epilepsy, AED,
Andrew G, Herzog, Hannah B, Mandle, Kaitlyn E, Cahill, Kristen M, Fowler, W Allen, Hauser   +4 more
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