Oral contraceptive pill use after an initial visit to a family planning clinic

A retrospective study of 1,311 women making initial family planning visits to metropolitan-area health department clinics found that many women switch methods or discontinue use in the first year following the clinic visits. Among a subgroup of women, most of whom selected the pill as their primary...

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Published in:Family planning perspectives 1991-07, Vol.23 (4), p.150-154
Main Authors: Oakley, D, Sereika, S, Bouge, E.L
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
abortion
academic achievement
Adolescents
behavior
Birth control
Blacks
children
Condoms
Contraception Behavior - statistics & numerical data
Contraceptives, Oral - administration & dosage
Family planning
Family planning clinics
Family Planning Services - methods
Family Planning Services - statistics & numerical data
Female
Health outcomes
Humans
marital status
marriage
medicaid
nationalities and ethnic groups
oakland county, michigan
Oral contraceptives
Patient Compliance
Pills
Population
Pregnancy
public assistance
Retrospective Studies
Side effects
social services
Whites
women
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Summary:A retrospective study of 1,311 women making initial family planning visits to metropolitan-area health department clinics found that many women switch methods or discontinue use in the first year following the clinic visits. Among a subgroup of women, most of whom selected the pill as their primary method and who used the pill for at least one of the months in the study period, almost half either changed methods or used no method at some point during a follow-up period averaging eight months. This includes 13 percent of women who made two or more changes. In addition, only 42 percent said they took a pill every day, and only half of these said they always took their pill at about the same time every day. Despite such irregularities, pill users were approximately one-third as likely to get pregnant during the study period as women making an initial family planning visit to a health department clinic who did not use the pill at all.
ISSN:0014-7354
2325-5617
DOI:10.2307/2135737