Background: Patients and providers demonstrate significant misconceptions and lack of knowledge regarding emergency contraception (EC), contributing to its underutilization.  There is a need to increase awareness and disperse correct information about EC to women who are at high risk of unintended pregnancy.  Social media has established itself as a leading source of news and health ...Read more >

This study will be a multi-site, mixed methods needs assessment of the contaceptive care expereinces of women presenting for bariatric surgery and their care providers. The project will prived Canadian data on the number of reproductive aged women choosing bariatric surgeyr. It will improve understanding of their current experience, as there providers’, regarding contraceptive care. ...Read more >

This is a qualitative evaluation of anesthesia providers’ perspectives regarding involvement in abortion care. We aim to recruit and interview individuals from several perinatal centers around Georgia via purposive and snowball sampling. We are primarily interested in characterizing the range of anesthesia opinion and involvement in abortion provision across the state, including facilitators and barriers to abortion provision at ...Read more >

The purpose of this mixed methods study is to explore changes in prevalence of contraceptive counseling before, during, and after the Zika outbreak and to examine provider knowledge, comfort level, and self-efficacy in contraceptive counseling in relation to Zika among non-US born Latina women from Zika outbreak areas (Mexico, South and Central America, and the Caribbean). ...Read more >

Specifically, University of Michigan is about to begin a donor-funded pilot program to engage non-abortion-providers in the care of medically complicated patients seeking abortion. This program will assemble a cadre of physician specialists and subspecialists to serve as a formalized network of consultants to University of Michigan/Planned Parenthood of Michigan abortion care providers. Given this ...Read more >

Background:  Women seeking abortion care may be referred to another abortion provider for a higher level of care (i.e. to a tertiary care center).  Reasons for referral include history of prior cesarean delivery, concern for abnormal placentation, and obesity.  It is unknown how many women are referred to other providers for the above reasons, and ...Read more >

The proposed exploratory research study will use qualitative research methods to describe the mechanisms by which cultural practices, gender norms, and structural factors affect adolescent girls’ utilization and access to reproductive health and family planning services in rural Nepal. We will describe how lived experiences including adolescent marriage and chaupadi impact girls’ perceptions of and ...Read more >

Objective 1: Determine whether long-term testosterone therapy in female-to-male transgender individuals suppresses ovulation. Hypothesis: Testosterone therapy does not reliably suppress ovulation in all trans men on testosterone.  Objective 2: Describe differences in trans men who ovulate while on testosterone vs trans men who do not ovulate following initiation of testosterone therapy Hypothesis: Trans men who are on testosterone and ...Read more >

Religious leaders of the Catholic Church have set forth guidelines for practicing medicine, which involve reproductive care restrictions that may conflict with professional desires or obligations. Using a qualitative investigation with semi-structured interviews, we explored how Catholic obstetrician-gynecologists integrate their religious values and professional obligations related to family planning services. We recruited US-based Catholic obstetrician-gynecologists ...Read more >

The proposed study is nested within a multisite randomized controlled non-inferiority trial comparing expulsion rates between 2 to 4 week early postpartum (EPP) IUD insertion and the traditional 6 week IUD insertion. We propose to explore provider perceptions of EPP IUD insertion and about the early postpartum visit, both before and after implementation of a ...Read more >