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Structural Racism Affects Family Planning and Needs Combatting, Study Says
Family planning has been linked with racism for centuries, and this legacy impact on 21st-century patients needs to be addressed in family planning research, a new paper says.
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Strategies To Improve Contraceptive Counseling, Including for Prenatal Patients
Here are some strategies to improve contraceptive counseling for all patients, including those who are pregnant.
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Perinatal Contraceptive Counseling Helps Patients Manage Reproductive Futures
Reproductive healthcare and contraceptive counseling have evolved in recent years to embrace patient-centered counseling and the reproductive justice framework. This focus should include the perinatal period, but that is not always the case, a new paper finds.
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LARC Use Can Affect Well-Woman Visits and STI Screening
Adolescent and young adult patients who select long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) attend fewer well-woman visits and have reduced testing for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), new research shows.
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Digital Contraceptive Decision Aid Has Potential to Help Match Patients to Best Option
Providers and patients who would like a little help in contraceptive counseling and decision-making could use a new tool — a digital contraceptive decision aid — that could enhance women’s confidence and satisfaction with their contraceptive recommendation, new research shows.
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Revisions to CDC’s Two Contraceptive Guidelines Address Management of Side Effects
The latest updates to contraceptive guidelines by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) include recommendations for people with chronic kidney disease, human immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV) infection risk, chronic diseases, and conditions such as obesity, surgery, breastfeeding, and postabortion.
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CDC Recommends New Pain Management Strategies for IUD Insertion
The 2024 U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use are the first to address the pain many women experience when they are having an intrauterine device (IUD) inserted.
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A Tubal Sterilization Knowledge and Decision Aid Support Tool: Does it Make a Difference?
A patient-centered decision aid that improves tubal sterilization knowledge and decision-making quality may be able to fill gaps in counseling and supplement the existing Medicaid sterilization consent process.
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LGBTQ+ Community Often Overlooked in Reproductive Health Research
Contraceptive Technology Update (CTU) asked Melissa Ertl, PhD, assistant professor of Psychology at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities in Minneapolis, about her new research paper on health equity and research with people in the LGBTQ+ community.
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Sexual Health Education Is Lacking for Gender Diverse Youth
Young people who are gender diverse lack adequate educational resources in sexual health education, and providers often need to fill in the information gaps.