Women's Use of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception for Birth Timing and Birth Stopping
| Autor: | Mieke C. W. Eeckhaut, Michael S. Rendall, Polina Zvavitch |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Long-acting reversible contraception Fertility Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Pregnancy Contraceptive Agents Female Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Contraception Behavior Demography media_common Reproductive health Long-Acting Reversible Contraception 030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine business.industry Reproductive life Pregnancy Unplanned medicine.disease United States Contraception Sterilization (medicine) Pill Female business Intrauterine Devices |
| Zdroj: | Demography |
| ISSN: | 1533-7790 0070-3370 |
| Popis: | The use of long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods—intrauterine devices (IUDs) and implants—has recently expanded rapidly in the United States, and these methods together approach the contraceptive pill in current prevalence. Research on LARCs has analyzed their use to reduce unintended pregnancies but not their use to enable intended pregnancies. Knowledge of both is necessary to understand LARCs’ potential impacts on the reproductive life courses of U.S. women. We combine data from two nationally representative surveys to estimate women's likelihood and timing of subsequent reproductive events, including births resulting from an intended pregnancy up to nine years after discontinuing LARC use. We estimate that 62% of women will give birth, and 45% will give birth from an intended pregnancy. Additionally, 18% will have a new LARC inserted, and 13% will transition to sterilization. Most of these reproductive events occur within two years after discontinuing LARC use. Births from an intended pregnancy are especially common when no intervening switch to another contraceptive method occurs. We infer that women's motives for using LARC are varied but include the desire to postpone a birth, to postpone a decision about whether to have a(nother) birth, and to transition definitively to the completion of childbearing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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