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Prevention of unwanted pregnancy
Author(s) -
Gerrard Meg,
McCann Lisa,
Fortini Mary-Ellen
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00894364
Subject(s) - health psychology , psychological intervention , birth control , family planning , medicine , population , public health , cognition , pregnancy , psychology , family medicine , clinical psychology , gynecology , psychiatry , environmental health , nursing , research methodology , biology , genetics
These two studies explored the cognitive decision-making process which differentiate effective contraceptors form the ineffective contraceptors (Study 1), and applied these findings to the development and testing of educational and cognitive interventions aimed at a group of sexually active young women at risk of becoming pregnant (Study 2). The results identified factors related to unnecessary contraceptive risk-taking. The interventions changed attitudes and knowledge about contraception in the college population in general and increased effective contraception in the at-risk population of women who were initially using either ineffective methods of birth control or no methods at all.