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- Title
Hormonal Implant is More Effective Among Teenagers Than Oral Contraceptives.
- Authors
Hollander, D.
- Abstract
This article reports that adolescent mothers who choose hormonal contraceptive implants as their contraceptive method are more likely to continue use and less likely to have a subsequent pregnancy than are their counterparts who use oral contraceptives. Whether they choose the pill or the implant does not affect teenagers' use of health care services, sexual activity, condom use or rate of infection with sexually transmitted diseases. These are among the findings of a study of postpartum implant use among inner-city teenagers. At their first clinic visit, study participants received their chosen contraceptive free of charge and were interviewed about their sexual activity since delivery, their concerns about future pregnancy and contraceptive use, and their expectations about sexual activity and condom use. Participants were predominantly unmarried, African Americans, poor and living in a single-parent household. The researchers conclude that the hormonal contraceptive implant appears to be a popular option among inner-city teenage mothers.
- Subjects
CONTRACEPTIVE drug implants; ORAL contraceptives; PREGNANCY; AFRICAN Americans; BIRTH control; CONTROLLED release drugs
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 2, p89
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2135913