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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives"”.
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Factors influencing the uptake of long acting reversible contraceptives among women at primary health clinics in eThekwini District
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Health Sciences in Nursing, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2017.
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Deconstructing the Teenage Pregnancy "Epidemic:" An Informed Approach to Caring for Marginalized Adolescents While Respecting Reproductive Autonomy
… pregnancy, particularly programs that provide Long Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARCs) to teens in marginalized communities. While these efforts are well-intentioned, they fail to recognize their perpetuation of histories of reproductive coercion of young women of color. This paper …
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Improving Women’s Health Services by Adding Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Methods into Primary Care-Focused Student Health
… continues to be an issue in the United States. Long-acting reversible contraceptives, including intrauterine contraceptives and the subdermal contraceptive implant, are safe, effective, long-acting, easily reversible, and non-user dependent contraceptive methods, yet currently are greatly …
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Contraceptive Use Across Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Contraceptive Use in Women Seeking Care at Sun Yat-sen University Hospital, China and Monduli District Hospital, Tanzania
… chose to use condoms with very few women using long acting reversible contraceptives. However, in the Tanzania population, other popular methods of contraception included LARCs such as implants as well as injections. In addition, elective abortion rates were significantly higher in Chinese women …
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Evaluating Provider Knowledge Towards Pain Management During Intrauterine Device Insertion in Nulliparous Women
… contraceptive failure or method non-adherence. Long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) are birth control methods consisting of intrauterine devices (IUDs) and the birth control implants that are the most effective forms of reversible contraceptives. LARCs are 20 times more effective than …
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Creating Recommendations for Long Acting Reversible Contraceptive Use for Adolescents
… for contraceptive counseling to include long acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) recommendations for the adolescent population. LARCs, which include intrauterine devices and implants, are the top-tier contraceptive for nulliparous women yet they are only used in less than 6% of women …
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Contraceptive histories: a comparative analysis of switching behaviour in five East African countries
… of users adopt short-term methods compared to long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs). However, the duration of use of short-term methods is observed to be shorter compared to LARCs, implying that LARCs facilitate contraceptive continuation. Last, the analysis of current-status data point …
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Meeting the contraceptive needs of HIV positive adolescent females living in urban townships in Western Cape, South Africa: perspectives of clients and primary health care providers
… (60.5%), followed by condoms alone (27.7%), then long-acting reversible contraceptives [LARC](9.1%) and hormonal pills (2.7%). Almost 1 in 5 (18.8%) female ALHIV had an unintended pregnancy. When contraceptive use consistency was restricted to the three months preceding the survey, levels of …
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Contraceptive careers: young women's choices, influences and risks
… use. Use of alternative methods, such as long acting reversible contraceptives (LARC), was only initiated when the young women experienced major problems or side effects with the pill and change was advocated by a health professional. However, all who used alternatives, discontinued use …
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A model to promote the use of implant contraceptive method in Vhembe District, Limpopo Province
… methods. Implant contraceptive method provides long-term pregnancy prevention for a period of three to five years, depending on the type of the device. Implant contraceptive method is typically associated with lower failure rates in preventing unintended pregnancies than methods that required …