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(Birth Control) and Family Planning".
Contraception (birth control)
is a regimen of one or more actions, devices, or medications followed in
order to deliberately prevent or reduce the likelihood of a woman
becoming pregnant or giving birth. Therefore contraception is the
utilization of various and sundry surgical procedures, devices,
practices, agents, or drugs with the intention of preventing conception
or impregnation (pregnancy). Methods and intentions typically termed
birth control may be considered a pivotal ingredient to family
planning. Birth control is a controversial political and ethical
issue in many cultures and religions, and although it is generally less
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Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning |
| Contraceptive risk and compensatory behaviour in young people in education |
| post-16 years: a cross-sectional study. |
| Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 2004 Apr;30(2):91-94. |
| The objective was to describe contraceptive risk and compensatory behaviour, using condoms or emergency |
| contraception (EC), in young people in education aged 16-24 years. Design Cross-sectional study. Subjects A total |
| of 1135 students aged 16-24 years. Setting Educational establishments in and around London, UK. Seventy-six |
| percent of women and 55% of men reported having experienced sex either without contraception or when a condom |
| split or came off. Most participants (or their sexual partners) who reported such risks had compensated by using EC |
| at least once (72% women, 55% men) but only a minority had compensated on each occasion of risk (37% women |
| and 22% men). Of the oral contraceptives users the majority (83%) had experienced a pill `problem' and the majority of |
| these participants had compensated for such problems by using condoms (79%). Fewer than half of the women who |
| experienced pill problems (45%) compensated by using condoms on each occasion. Less than a quarter (23%) of |
| those who experienced pill problems but did not compensate by using condoms ever compensated by using EC. |
| This study demonstrates high levels of primary contraceptive risk and low levels of consistent compensatory condom |
| or EC use. The findings suggest that there would be large increases in EC use and repeated use if all primary |
| contraceptive risks were followed by compensatory action. Interventions to increase contraceptive use should focus |
| not only on initiation of contraception use but acknowledge that risks do happen and promote both continuing use |
| and compensatory behaviour. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT1T 511-06) |
| PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Contraceptive risk and compensatory behaviour in young |
| people in education post-16 years: a cross-sectional study.", is(are) Free C; Ogden J. The source of this article is |
| "Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. 2004 Apr;30(2):91-94.". This article was published in |
| 2004 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT1T 511-06. All rights reserved with |
| This article is peer-reviewed. |
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