ArticleContraception2009
Can I get pregnant from oral sex? Sexual health misconceptions in e-mails to a reproductive health website.
Article in Contraception, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 35 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Race-Ethnic Differences in Sexual Health Knowledge.Race and social problems · 2012Article
- Internet use among female sex workers in China: implications for HIV/STI prevention.AIDS and behavior · 2011Article
- Innovation in sexually transmitted disease and HIV prevention: internet and mobile phone delivery vehicles for global diffusion.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2010Review
- Misconceptions and Ignorance About Sexual and Reproductive Health.The female patient · 2009Article
- Arousal loss related to safer sex and risk of pregnancy: implications for women's and men's sexual health.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2009Article
- Never-pregnant African American adolescent girls' perceptions of adolescent pregnancy.Journal of pediatric nursingArticle
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThis study identifies sexual and reproductive health misconceptions contained in e-mails sent to an emergency contraception website. STUDY
designFrom July 1, 2003, through June 30, 2004, 1134 English-language questions were e-mailed to http://ec.princeton.edu. We performed content analysis on these e-mails and grouped misconceptions into thematic categories.
resultsOf the questions sent during the study period, 27% (n=303, total N=1134) evinced underlying misconceptions about sexual and reproductive health issues. Content analysis revealed five major thematic categories of misconceptions: sexual acts that can lead to pregnancy; definitions of "protected" sex; timing of pregnancy and pregnancy testing; dangers that emergency contraceptives pose to women and fetuses; and confusion between emergency contraception and abortion.
conclusionsThese misconceptions have several possible sources: abstinence-only sexual education programs in the US, the proliferation of medically inaccurate websites, terminology used in public health campaigns, non-evidence-based medical protocols and confusion between emergency contraception and medication abortion in the media.
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