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Social and Situational Factors Associated With Contraceptive Switching: Implications for Practitioners 1
Author(s) -
Jaccard James,
Helbig Donald W.,
Gage Timothy B.,
Wan Choi K.,
KritzSilverstein Donna C.,
Gutman Marjorie A.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1995.tb01817.x
Subject(s) - family planning , pill , birth control , situational ethics , context (archaeology) , hazard , psychology , metropolitan area , service (business) , social psychology , family medicine , demography , population , medicine , sociology , business , research methodology , nursing , marketing , geography , chemistry , archaeology , organic chemistry , pathology
This study was an investigation of contraceptive switching in the context of a 5‐wave panel design of diaphragm and pill users from the New York City metropolitan area. The respondents were 525 women between the ages of 14 and 46, who came to one of 10 family planning clinics to obtain birth control, Results indicated a hazard function for switching in which the hazard rate increased in the initial weeks and then gradually declined over time. Clinic experiences on the part of the women were found to alter survivorship trends. Implications of the data for service providers were developed.