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YEAR: 2004

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Emergency contraception: why can't you give it away? Qualitative findings

from an evaluation of advance provision of emergency contraception.

AUTHORS

Fairhurst K; Ziebland S; Wyke S; Seaman P; Glasier A

SOURCE

Contraception. 2004 Jul;70(1):25-29.

ABSTRACT

The Lothian Emergency Contraception Project (LECP)-a primary care-based intervention to offer advance supplies of

emergency contraception (EC) to women aged 16-29 was not associated with a reduction in abortion rates. We

undertook case studies, utilizing qualitative and quantitative methods, to evaluate the intervention. In this article we

present findings from qualitative interviews with 44 primary care professionals working at case study sites and 22

women who had received advance supplies to explain this failure. Professionals reported that women rarely asked for

advance supplies of EC and they were reluctant to offer supplies to women because of concerns about contradictory

sexual health messages implied by the offer, a perceived association of EC use with chaotic behavior by women,

views about the sort of women suitable for advance supplies and practical difficulties making the offer. Women were

reluctant to ask for advance supplies because of misgivings about the appropriateness of offering advance supplies

to everybody and concerns about being judged by health professionals as morally inadequate. If advance provision of

EC is to be successful in reducing abortion rates, professionals must address their concerns about EC and develop

imaginative ways of encouraging women most at risk of unwanted pregnancy to take supplies home. (PubHealth.info

Document ID: CONT1T 546-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Emergency contraception: why can't you give it away?

Qualitative findings from an evaluation of advance provision of emergency contraception.", is(are) Fairhurst K;

Ziebland S; Wyke S; Seaman P; Glasier A. The source of this article is "Contraception. 2004 Jul;70(1):25-29.". This

article was published in 2004 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT1T 546-06. All rights

reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 546

This article is peer-reviewed.

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