Contraception among adolescents

Adolescence is a period of which the contraception is difficult, because of lower compliance of the teenagers to this methods. The authors were observed the contraceptive uses in 792 pregnant adolescent girls, 264 of which with abortions (group A) and 528 teen-age mothers (group B). Only 12.88% of all patients have used birth control methods, usually with low and middle effects. We founded only 15 patients (1.89%) practiced hormonal contraception and 1 case (0.13%) with Intrauterine devise. The condoms for men was the most popular and useful in teenagers (4.23%), and Natural family planning methods were practiced from 52 (6.57%) patients. There was the statistically differences between adolescent girls included in group A and B about their contraceptive behaviors and live standards (p < 0.01). By the kind of contraceptive methods, there was a high differences in the teenagers with a hormonal uses (p < 0.05).

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

1994

Erschienen:

1994

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:33

Enthalten in:

Akusherstvo i ginekologiia - 33(1994), 3 vom: 01., Seite 28-30

Sprache:

Bulgarisch

Weiterer Titel:

Kontratseptsiia pri adolestsenti

Beteiligte Personen:

Porozhanova, V [VerfasserIn]
Tanchev, S [VerfasserIn]
Goranov, M [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Adolescent Pregnancy
Bulgaria
Comparative Studies
Contraception
Contraceptive Usage
Demographic Factors
Developed Countries
Eastern Europe
English Abstract
Europe
Family Planning
Fertility
Journal Article
Population
Population Dynamics
Reproductive Behavior
Research Methodology
Studies

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 27.07.1995

Date Revised 15.11.2006

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM077692675