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- Delbaere, Ilse, et al.
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Fertility awareness and parenthood intentions among medical students in three European countries
- 2021
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Ingår i: European journal of contraception & reproductive health care. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1362-5187 .- 1473-0782. ; 26:4, s. 312-322
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate medical undergraduate students' fertility awareness and parenthood intentions in three European countries, as well as possible differences across genders and countries.Materials and methods: A cross sectional survey among 656 medical students in Sweden, Belgium and Greece. The utilised questionnaire comprised 23 questions.Results: Three fourth of participants (n = 472/629) correctly stated that women are most fertile at 20-25 years of age. Approximately 91% correctly answered that women's fertility starts to significantly decline before the age of 35, which differed among countries of participation. Social oocyte or sperm freezing was considered by 67% of Belgians, 49% Greeks, and 16.5% Swedes (p < 0.001). Approximately 95% expressed a wish of having a child in the future and the median age was 29 years for the first and 35 years for the last child.Conclusions: Knowledge about fertility among medical students was in general satisfactory, albeit varying by country and gender. Medical curricula and social policies for childbearing should be respectively updated in EU countries suffering population growth.
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- Envall, Niklas, 1984-, et al.
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The use and access to contraception in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic period.
- 2023
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Ingår i: European journal of contraception & reproductive health care. - 1362-5187 .- 1473-0782. ; 28:5, s. 275-281
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: Explore perceived access to, the need for, use of, and satisfaction with telemedicine services for contraceptive counselling and prescription-renewal-only during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic period on the choice and use of contraceptives.MATERIALS AND METHODS: Internet-based e-survey of Swedish women of fertile age, 16-49 years.RESULTS: In total, 1016 participants completed the survey. Most participants (69.7%) rated their access to contraceptive services 'as usual'. Among the remaining participants, a higher proportion rated their access as deteriorated (73.4%) compared to improved (26.6%; p < 0.001). In total, 38.0% reported a need for contraceptive counselling, whereof 14.0% had used telemedicine for counselling and reported high satisfaction. Telemedicine for prescription-renewal-only was used by 15.1% of the total population. Two per cent reported use of another contraceptive than their intended, whereof long-acting reversible contraceptives were the most common intended method. The proportion of current contraceptive users was lower than in 2017 (62.4% vs 71.1%, p < 0.001), and current users of long-acting reversible contraception decreased from 30.6% to 19.3% (p < 0.001).CONCLUSIONS: During the COVID-19 pandemic period, most women found their access to contraceptive services unaffected, but more women felt that it had deteriorated than improved. The use of telemedicine was low, and the use of contraception overall fell. Efforts are needed to raise awareness of available services, and TM-provided interventions for maintained quality of care and informed decision-making remain to be evaluated.SHORT CONDENSATION The COVID-19 period imposed a change in contraceptive service provision, and efforts are needed to raise awareness of available services, including telemedicine. Access to all contraceptives, including LARCs, is crucial and telemedicine-provided interventions need evaluation.
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- Envall, Niklas, 1984-, et al.
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Use of contraception and attitudes towards contraceptive use in Swedish women : an internet-based nationwide survey
- 2022
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Ingår i: European journal of contraception & reproductive health care. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1362-5187 .- 1473-0782. ; 27:5, s. 409-417
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PURPOSE: Explore contraceptive use, unmet need of and attitudes towards contraceptive use in Sweden. Secondly, to investigate knowledge of contraceptives, prevalence and outcomes of unintended pregnancies.MATERIALS AND METHODS: Internet based e-survey of Swedish women aged 16-49. The e-survey contained 49 questions with both spontaneous and multi-choice character on demographics, contraceptive use, knowledge of and attitudes towards contraception, importance of monthly bleeding, and experience of unintended pregnancy. The e-survey was closed when reaching the estimated sample size of 1000 respondents.RESULTS: A total of 1016 women participated, whereof 62.4% used contraception, 31.8% did not and 5.8% had stopped in the last 12 months. Unmet need for contraception was estimated at 17.2%. At least one unintended pregnancy was experienced by 19.9%. All women rated effectiveness as the most important characteristic of a contraceptive method.CONCLUSIONS: Use of contraception in Swedish women remains low, 62.4%, and the unmet need for contraception has increased to 17.2%. Method effectiveness and health benefits of hormonal contraception should be emphasised during contraceptive counselling, and actions are needed to target groups with low use of effective contraception as well as to reach those who never seek contraception.KEY MESSAGE Close to one third of Swedish women do not use contraception and one fifth have experienced at least one unintended pregnancy. Unmet need for contraception is high despite easy access and subsidies for young women.
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- Fiala, C, et al.
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Abortion: legislation and statistics in Europe
- 2022
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Ingår i: The European journal of contraception & reproductive health care : the official journal of the European Society of Contraception. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1473-0782. ; 27:4, s. 345-352
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- Helsing, Bo, 1966, et al.
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Sexual risk-taking among young Swedish men testing for STI
- 2021
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Ingår i: European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1362-5187 .- 1473-0782. ; 26:2, s. 155-159
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Objectives This study investigates sexual risk-taking among young men testing for sexually transmitted infections (STI). Sampling method 452 participants (aged 18-30) completed surveys concerning their backgrounds, sexual risk-taking, and experience with STI. Results Over one-third had used alcohol during their last sexual encounter, one-fifth were reluctant to use condoms due to concerns about erection difficulties, 14.7% had experienced sexual coercion and one-fifth reported having had contracted the most common STI, chlamydia trachomatis (CT). Older participants (aged 25-30) were more reluctant to use condoms because of erection worries and to report having had CT. Immigrant men reported more unprotected sex while men who have sex with men (MSM) were more exposed to sexual coercion than others, but less likely to use alcohol when having sex. Conclusions There are important differences in sexual risk-taking within the group of young men testing for sexually transmitted infections which need to be taken into account in developing effective counselling and promotion strategies in sexual and reproductive health care. Further research on young men's sexual risk-taking is needed to broaden understanding of factors associated with young men's sexual health.
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