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Comprehensive Sexuality Education [PDF]

, 2008
Healthy Teen Network recommends and encourages the teaching of developmentally and age-appropriate comprehensive sexuality education, as it holds the greatest hope for reducing the risk of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and unintended pregnancy ...

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Influence of Motivation on the Efficacy of Natural Family Planning [PDF]

, 2013
Purpose: Mutual motivation is recognized as essential for effective behavioral methods of family planning. Few studies have studied this factor in family planning efficacy.
Barron, Mary Lee, Fehring, Richard J., Pruszynski, Jessica E., Schneider, Mary   +3 more
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Efficacy of the Marquette Method of Natural Family Planning [PDF]

, 2008
Purpose: To determine the effectiveness of the Marquette Method (MM) of natural family planning (NFP) as a method of avoiding pregnancy. Study Design and Methods: This was a 12-month retrospective evaluation of the MM system of NFP.
Barron, Mary Lee, Fehring, Richard, Schneider, Mary   +2 more
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Factors associated with crisis pregnancies in Ireland: Findings from three nationally representative sexual health surveys [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Findings on the demographic and sexual health characteristics associated with the experience of a crisis pregnancy is important to inform the public health policy of a country, including Ireland.
AO Tsui, AP Mohllajee, Ashling Bourke, BM Magnusson, Caroline Kelleher, Central Statistics Office, Central Statistics Office, D Cheng, Daniel Boduszek, DG Foster, F Kreuter, F Lakha, H Tolonen, IBM Corp, J Murphy-Lawless, JB Homco, JJ Speidel, K Kaye, K Rundle, Karen Morgan, L Lindberg, LB Finer, LB Finer, M Nic Ghiolla Phádraig, MA Biggs, MR Frankel, O McBride, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, PK Kohler, PS Shah, R Layte, R Layte, RK Jones, RK Jones, SK Henshaw, TE Mueller, WD Mosher   +36 more
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Prevalence of unintended pregnancy and pertinent factors in women with positive pregnancy test [PDF]

حیات, 2003
Unintended pregnancy is a world wide problem that affects women, their families, and society. From a total of 175 million pregnancies per year 75 million of them are unintended.
Rezaipour, A. Taghizadeh, Z. Faghihzadeh, S. Bazzazian, Sh.   +4 more
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Factors associated with unintended pregnancies in India among married women over the past one and half decade (2005–2021): a multivariable decomposition analysis

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
Background Along with other low- and middle-income countries unintended pregnancies are a matter of grave concern for India as well as world. Preventing unintended pregnancy can significantly reduce fertility as well as population health.
Sanjiv Singh, Kaushalendra Kumar Singh
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Estimating the incidence of unintended births and pregnancies at the sub-state level to inform program design.

PLoS ONE, 2020
ObjectivesUnintended (mistimed or unwanted) pregnancies occur frequently in the United States and have negative effects. When designing prevention programs and intervention strategies for the provision of comprehensive birth control methods, it is ...
Keith Kranker, Sarah Bardin, Dara Lee Luca, So O'Neil   +3 more
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Efficacy of a New Postpartum Transition Protocol for Avoiding Pregnancy [PDF]

, 2013
Introduction: The postpartum period is a challenging time for family planning, especially for women who breastfeed. Breastfeeding delays the return of menses (lactational amenorrhea), but ovulation often occurs before first menses.
Bouchard, Thomas, Fehring, Richard, Schneider, Mary   +2 more
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Migration Experiences and Reported Sexual Behavior Among Young, Unmarried Female Migrants in Changzhou, China. [PDF]

, 2017
BackgroundChina has a large migrant population, including many young unmarried women. Little is known about their sexual behavior, contraceptive use, and risk of unintended pregnancy.Methods475 unmarried female migrants aged 15-24, working in 1 of 6 ...
Hearst, Norman, Mao, Jingshu, Shu, Xingyu, Sun, Xiaoming, Yang, Wenjian, Zong, Zhanhong   +5 more
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Women’s experience of unintended pregnancy and changes in contraceptive methods: evidence from a nationally representative survey

Reproductive Health, 2022
Plain Language summary Unintended pregnancy is considered a public health challenge in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Around 89% of the global occurrences of unintended pregnancies occur in LMICs.
Md Nuruzzaman Khan, M. Mofizul Islam
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