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Teenagers' use of Emergency Contraception in a General Practice

Author(s) -

Clare Seamark,

Denis Pereira Gray

Publication year - 1997

Publication title -

journal of the royal society of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.38

H-Index - 81

eISSN - 1758-1095

pISSN - 0141-0768

DOI - 10.1177/014107689709000807

Subject(s) - emergency contraception , medicine , family planning , family medicine , pill , oral contraception , general practice , population , developed country , ignorance , gynecology , medical emergency , research methodology , nursing , environmental health , philosophy , epistemology

British teenagers who become pregnant commonly express ignorance about emergency contraception. A case-note survey was conducted in a general practice serving about 14 200 people in a Devon market town. Of the 373 registered girls aged 15–19 years, 59 (16%) had consulted for emergency contraception, 19 of them more than once. The oral method (Yuzpe regimen) was prescribed eighty times and 2 girls became pregnant. 4 of the 59 girls who used emergency contraception had subsequent unwanted pregnancies. A consultation for emergency contraception presents an opportunity to discuss more reliable and acceptable methods of contraception.

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