Articles Tagged With: iuds
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People with Disabilities Often Left Out of Contraceptive Conversation
Several recent studies revealed that women with disabilities often receive inadequate or no reproductive and sexual health counseling and care, partly because healthcare professionals do not ask. -
Study: IUDs Are as Effective as Tubal Ligation — and Safer
Researchers made an astonishing discovery when comparing the safety and effectiveness of IUDs and tubal ligation: The rates of pregnancy were similar, and IUDs were much safer. Instead of finding pregnancy rates on the order of one in every 1,000 or 10,000 tubal ligation procedures, they found a rate of 2.64 per 100 procedures. For placement of levonorgestrel IUDs the rate was lower — 2.4 per 100 procedures. -
Physician Training with IUDs Partly Affected by Medicaid Expansion Status
A survey of OB/GYN residents revealed a significant difference in exposure to placement of intrauterine devices (IUDs) based on whether they were working as residents in states that expanded Medicaid vs. states that did not. The responses revealed those who worked in university programs in states that accepted Medicaid expansion inserted more IUDs and received more experience with immediate postpartum IUD training than did those in states that did not expand Medicaid. -
Research Reveals Barriers to Contraceptive Care for Patients with Disabilities
Several new studies highlight problems people with disabilities experience when trying to access contraceptive care. These include barriers related to educational material that is not designed with disabilities in mind as well as attitudes and biases among reproductive health providers and clinicians. -
Family Planning Providers Can Reduce Negative Perceptions of IUDs
Despite the safety and efficacy of the intrauterine device (IUD) and the reduction of cost barriers since the Affordable Care Act, only about 12% of American women use that method of contraception. Research shows that the women most likely to use an IUD or implant are ages 25 to 34 years, were born outside of the United States, live in a Western state, and report their religious affiliation as “other."
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Study: Copper IUDs Do Not Appear to Prevent Implantation or Increase HIV Risk
For decades, clinicians and the public assumed that copper intrauterine devices (IUDs) prevented pregnancy by preventing implantation. There also was fear that IUDs could increase a woman’s risk of HIV infection. Results of a new study suggested these assumptions are incorrect.
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Rheumatology Association Issues Its First Reproductive Health Guidelines
The 2020 Guideline for the Management of Reproductive Health in Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Diseases is the first set of evidence-based recommendations regarding contraception and other reproductive health issues from the American College of Rheumatology.
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Advanced Research Underway on Potential Copper IUD
Patient enrollment has begun in the United States for Phase III trials of a new copper intrauterine device (IUD) with a flexible frame.
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Add the IUD to EC Counseling
Results of a new study indicate that many young women don’t know that the IUD can be used for emergency contraception or that it is effective. Researchers report that if young women needed emergency contraception, most indicated they would want to know about IUDs in addition to emergency contraceptive pills.
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Training Can Help Integrate LARC Options Into Contraceptive Care
Research from the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health at the University of California, San Francisco, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America indicates that a four-hour training intervention can significantly affect the likelihood that healthcare providers will integrate long-acting reversible contraceptives into their clinical care.