ArticleAmerican journal of health education2018
Intentions to use emergency contraception: The role of accurate knowledge and information source credibility.
Article in American journal of health education, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Factors Associated With the Utilization of Emergency Contraceptives by Female College Students in Rural Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Exploring the Availability of Emergency Contraception in New Brunswick Pharmacies: A Mystery-Client Telephone Study.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Hormonal Male Contraception: Formative Research to Develop and Test Communication Messaging.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
backgroundEmergency contraception (EC) is a highly effective form of birth control that may lower rates of unintended pregnancy among young women. But efforts to disseminate EC to women are hampered by misinformation and inadequate information. PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to determine the sources from which young women learn about EC (including health care providers, friends/interpersonal sources, media sources, or no information sources), and to examine source credibility with the accuracy of EC knowledge and intentions to use EC.
methodUsing a computer-based survey, 339 college women (
resultsIn total, 97% of participants had heard of EC from at least one source and 49% indicated they were highly likely to use EC in the future if needed. Results demonstrated that EC knowledge mediated the relationship between EC information source credibility and intentions to use EC. DISCUSSION: This study contributes important insights to a scarce literature on EC information sources and the factors that predict intentions to use EC. TRANSLATION TO HEALTH EDUCATION PRACTICE: Future EC promotion efforts should target health education sources instead of media or interpersonal sources to promote EC knowledge and use among young, sexually at-risk populations.
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