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YEAR: 2004

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Knowledge of emergency contraception among women aged 18 to 44 in California.

AUTHORS

Foster DG; Harper CC; Bley JJ; Mikanda JJ; Induni M

SOURCE

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2004;191:150-156.

ABSTRACT

The State of California has taken several steps to make emergency contraceptives (ECs) available to women in the

state. By using data from the 1999-2001 California Women's Health Survey, we estimated the knowledge of

emergency contraception among adult women of reproductive age at risk of pregnancy (n=6209). This study is based

on 3 years of data (1999-2001) from the California Women's Health Survey (CWHS), an annual population-based

survey of more than 4000 randomly selected adult women (aged 18 years and older) in California. A total of 6198

women aged 18 to 44 responded to the 2 emergency contraception questions: ``To the best of your knowledge, if a

woman has unprotected sex is there anything she can do in the 3 days after intercourse that will prevent pregnancy?''

and ``What can she do?'' We find that 38% of California women were able to correctly identify emergency

contraception. Most importantly, the women who are most likely to need emergency contraception-those who are at

risk of an unintended pregnancy but not using any method of contraception-have among the lowest levels of

knowledge (only 29% identified a method of ECs). (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT1T 577-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Knowledge of emergency contraception among women

aged 18 to 44 in California.", is(are) Foster DG; Harper CC; Bley JJ; Mikanda JJ; Induni M. The source of this

article is "American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2004;191:150-156.". This article was published in 2004 in

English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT1T 577-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN:

577

This article is peer-reviewed.

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