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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Emergency contraception - why women don't use it.

AUTHORS

Young L; McCowan LM; Roberts HE; Farquhar CM

SOURCE

NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL JOURNAL. 1995 Apr 26;108(998):145-8.

ABSTRACT

A survey conducted among induced abortion and family planning clients in Auckland, New Zealand, revealed a need

for greater promotion and availability of emergency contraception. Included in the survey were 200 women seeking

pregnancy termination at two Auckland clinics and 100 women presenting to a family planning clinic for counseling

and contraceptive supplies. The mean age of participants was 25.4 years. In the six months preceding the survey,

78% of abortion patients and 83% of family planning clinic attendees had been using a birth control method;

condoms were most commonly selected (41.5%), followed by oral contraceptives (16.5%). 57% of family planning

clients and 37.5% of abortion patients reported ever use of emergency contraception, although only 7% of women in

the latter group had tried the method in the month of the current conception. When abortion patients were asked why

they had not used postcoital contraception to prevent the current unwanted pregnancy, 38% stated they had not heard

of the method and 41% did not know where to obtain it. 62% of women with unwanted pregnancies indicated they

would have used emergency contraception to terminate the current pregnancy if their physician had provided them

with a postcoital pill to have on hand for use after unprotected intercourse and 57% said they would have purchased

such a pill if it were available over the counter at pharmacies. Recommended to reduce the high incidence of

unwanted pregnancy in New Zealand are community education campaigns, physician provision of postcoital

contraceptive pills at the time of regular family planning visits, and availability of the method through pharmacies.

(PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 2576-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Emergency contraception - why women don't use it.",

is(are) Young L; McCowan LM; Roberts HE; Farquhar CM. The source of this article is "NEW ZEALAND MEDICAL

JOURNAL. 1995 Apr 26;108(998):145-8.". This article was published in 1995 in English language(s).

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