Contraceptive use among women through their later reproductive years: Findings from an Australian prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Examine patterns of contraceptive use and contraceptive transitions over time among an Australian cohort of women through their later reproductive years.

Study design

Latent Transition Analysis was performed using data on 8,197 women from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health's 1973-78 cohort to identify distinct patterns of contraceptive use across 2006, 2012 and 2018. Women were excluded from the analysis at time points where they were not at risk of an unintended pregnancy. Latent status membership probabilities, item-response probabilities, transitions probabilities and the effect of predictors on latent status membership were estimated and reported.

Results

Patterns of contraceptive use were relatively consistent over time, particularly fo

SUBMITTER: Harris ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8357106 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature