Patterns of contraceptive use through later reproductive years: A cohort study of Australian women with chronic disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pregnancies among women with chronic disease are associated with poor maternal and fetal outcomes. There is a need to understand how women use or don't use contraception across their reproductive years to better inform the development of preconception care strategies to reduce high risk unintended pregnancies, including among women of older reproductive age. However, there is a lack of high-quality longitudinal evidence to inform such strategies. We examined patterns of contraceptive use among a population-based cohort of reproductive aged women and investigated how chronic disease influenced contraceptive use over time.

Methods and findings

Contraceptive patterns from 8,030 women of reproductive age from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (1973-7

SUBMITTER: Harris ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10155986 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature