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Multiple Unintended Pregnancies in U.S. Women: A Systematic Review.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Identifying sexual risk-taking and ill health in the meeting with young people-experiences of using an assessment tool.Scandinavian journal of caring sciences · 2022Article
- Clustering of characteristics associated with unplanned pregnancies: the generation R study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Women's experience of unintended pregnancy and changes in contraceptive methods: evidence from a nationally representative survey.Reproductive health · 2022Article
- Medicaid expansions, preconception insurance, and unintended pregnancy among new parents.Health services research · 2021Article
- Quality assessment with diverse studies (QuADS): an appraisal tool for methodological and reporting quality in systematic reviews of mixed- or multi-method studies.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Comparison of pregnancy complications in unintended and intended pregnancy: A prospective follow-up study.BioMedicine · 2021Article
- The Association between Mental Health Disorders and History of Unintended Pregnancy among Women Veterans.Journal of general internal medicine · 2018Article
- Contraceptive Practices, Preferences, and Barriers Among Abortion Clients in North Carolina.Southern medical journal · 2018Article
- Decreasing seroprevalence of herpes simplex virus type 1 and type 2 in Germany leaves many people susceptible to genital infection: time to raise awareness and enhance control.BMC infectious diseases · 2017Article
- Unintended pregnancy: a framework for prevention and options for midlife women in the US.Women's midlife health · 2017Article
- You Have Options: Implementing and evaluating a contraceptive choice social marketing campaign.Medicine access @ point of careArticle
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Abstract
backgroundEach year, nearly one-half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended. Risk factors of unintended pregnancy have been studied without attention to whether the pregnancy was the woman's first unintended pregnancy or whether she had had more than one. Little is known about the prevalence, incidence, and risk factors for multiple unintended pregnancies. The purpose of this paper is to present a systematic review of the extant literature on the risk factors for multiple unintended pregnancies in women in the United States, and whether these factors are specific to multiple unintended pregnancies.
methodsPubMed, PsychInfo, CINAHL, Web of Science, and JSTOR databases were searched for empirical research studies performed after 1979, in the United States, with a primary outcome of multiple unintended pregnancies. Articles that did not establish the intendedness of the studied pregnancies were excluded.
resultsSeven studies were identified. For multiple unintended pregnancies, incidence rates ranged from 7.4 to 30.9 per 100 person-years and prevalence rates ranged from 17% to 31.6%. Greater age; identifying as Black or Hispanic; nonvoluntary first intercourse, particularly at a young age; sex trade involvement; and previous abortion were found to be associated with multiple unintended pregnancies. Use of intrauterine devices or combined oral contraceptives were found to decrease the risk of multiple unintended pregnancies.
conclusionsThis review suggests a small number of modifiable factors that may be used to better predict and manage multiple unintended pregnancies.
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