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- Title
UPDATE.
- Authors
Hollander, Dore
- Abstract
The article provides updates as of 2001 on various aspects of family planning. Women who do not follow the Institute of Medicine's recommendation to eat three meals and at least two snacks a day during pregnancy have an increased risk of delivering preterm, according to a study of women attending two prenatal clinics in North Carolina in 1995-1998. Teenage women who have been physically abused by a boyfriend are significantly more likely than those who have not experienced abuse to engage in risky sexual activity and to have unhealthy attitudes related to sexual behavior. Among 522 black 14-18-year-olds participating in a sexually transmitted disease prevention study, 18% had had an abusive boyfriend. Citing the "serious public health challenge" posed by such problems as high levels of sexually transmitted diseases, unintended pregnancies and sexual violence, Surgeon General David Satcher has called for a nationwide, "mature and thoughtful discussion" about sexuality. In a randomized crossover trial comparing a latex condom with a new plastic one, both types were comparable in terms of safety and slippage, but the plastic condom had a higher breakage rate (6%, compared with 1% for the latex).
- Subjects
WOMEN'S sexual behavior; BIRTH control; PREMATURE labor; SEXUAL behavior surveys; PREVENTION of sexually transmitted diseases; UNWANTED pregnancy
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 2001, Vol 33, Issue 5, p190
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article