ArticleContraception2012
Reproductive health preventive screening among clinic vs. over-the-counter oral contraceptive users.
Article in Contraception, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Should oral contraceptive pills be available without a prescription? A systematic review of over-the-counter and pharmacy access availability.BMJ global health · 2019Pooled it
- Transnational Health and Self-care Experiences of Japanese Women who have taken Oral Contraceptives in South Korea, including Over-the-counter Access: Insights from Semi-structured Interviews.Asian bioethics review · 2024Article
- Interest in Continued Use After Participation in a Study of Over-the-Counter Progestin-Only Pills in the United States.Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Opposition to Pharmacist Contraception Services: Evidence for Rebuttal.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Bills as Band-Aids: Hopes and Challenges of Expanding Pharmacists' Prescriptive Authority to Include Contraceptives.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2019Article
- Pharmacists expand access to reproductive heaLthcare: PEARL study protocol.BMC health services research · 2019Article
- Hypertension among oral contraceptive users in El Paso, Texas.Journal of health care for the poor and underserved · 2013Article
- Interest in over-the-counter access to oral contraceptives among women in the United States.Contraception · 2013Article
- Views and attitudes of oral contraceptive users towards their availability without a prescription in the Republic of Ireland.Pharmacy practiceArticle
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Abstract
backgroundInterest is growing in moving oral contraceptives over-the-counter (OTC), although concerns exist about whether women would continue to get preventive health screening. STUDY
designWe recruited cohorts of US-resident women who obtained oral contraceptives from US family planning clinics (n=532) and OTC from pharmacies in Mexico (n=514) and interviewed them four times over 9 months. Based on self-reports of having a Pap smear within 3 years or ever having had a pelvic exam, clinical breast exam and testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), we assessed the prevalence of preventive screening using Poisson regression models.
resultsThe prevalence of screening was high for both groups (>88% for Pap smear, pelvic exam and clinical breast exam and >71% for STI screening), while the prevalence ratios for screening were higher for clinic users, even after multivariable adjustment.
conclusionsResults suggest that most women would obtain reproductive health preventive screening if oral contraceptives were available OTC, and also highlight the need to improve access to preventive screening for all low-income women.
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