Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptive Attitudes and Acceptability in Adolescents and Young Adults: A Key to Patient-Centered Contraceptive Counseling.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To examine the attitudes of adolescent and young adults (AYA) toward long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), and to assess how attitudes are associated with acceptability.

Design

Survey.

Setting

Children's Hospital Colorado Adolescent Family Planning Clinic in Aurora, Colorado.

Participants, interventions, and main outcome measures

Young persons 14-24 years of age presenting for any type of visit between March and August 2018.

Results

A total of 332 participants were enrolled; the majority (62.3%) had high LARC acceptability. We found 5 "attitude" factors: 77.7% of the sample endorsed "Effective" attitudes (eg, wants most effective method), 37.3% endorsed "Good attributes" (eg, discreet, convenient), 23.1% endorsed "Scary" (eg, fears device

SUBMITTER: Richards MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8938958 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature