[HTML][HTML] Individual and contextual factors associated with mistimed and unwanted pregnancies among adolescent girls and young women in selected high fertility …

BO Ahinkorah - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Introduction Unintended pregnancies are associated with a number of risk factors such as
malnutrition, mental illness, unsafe abortion, maternal mortality and horizontal transmission …

Knowing (with) the body: Sensory knowing in contraceptive self‐tracking

E Algera - Sociology of Health & Illness, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Scholars have criticised reproductive self‐tracking software applications (apps) for reducing
embodied experiences to objective quantifications and leading to user self‐alienation …

[HTML][HTML] Digitised fertility: The use of fertility awareness apps as a form of contraception in the United Kingdom

L Dudouet - Social Sciences & Humanities Open, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper explores the motivations for using fertility awareness apps as a form of
contraception through semi-structured qualitative interviews with women living in the United …

Configuring the body as pedagogical site: towards a conceptual tool to unpack and situate multiple ontologies of the body in self-tracking apps

L Della Bianca - Learning, Media and Technology, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper focuses on the relationships among education, self-tracking technologies, and
body practices, addressing an ongoing debate about the 'disciplinary versus …

[HTML][HTML] Use of Fertility Awareness-Based Methods for Pregnancy Prevention Among Ghanaian Women: A Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey

CB Polis, E Otupiri, SO Bell… - Global Health: Science …, 2021 - ghspjournal.org
Few studies in low-and middle-income countries have examined the use of fertility
awareness-based methods (FABMs) for pregnancy prevention. Understanding the …

[HTML][HTML] Associations between contraception and stunting in Guatemala: secondary analysis of the 2014–2015 Demographic and Health Survey

D Flood, A Petersen, B Martinez, A Chary… - BMJ paediatrics …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background There has been limited research on the relationship between contraception and
child growth in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). This study examines the …

[HTML][HTML] Defining and conceptualizing patient-centered family planning counseling: A scoping review

D Meekers, A Elkins, V Obozekhai - F1000Research, 2023 - f1000research.com
Background Family planning counseling has long been dominated by the tiered-
effectiveness model, which discusses contraceptive methods in order of effectiveness …

Reproductive preferences during middle childhood and early adolescence in Guatemala

J Maupin, J Hackman - Culture, Health & Sexuality, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Reproductive preferences and the spread of low fertility norms occupy a key position in
debates regarding the causal mechanisms underlying sustained fertility declines. Most of the …

Response to Austad: offering a range of methods, including fertility awareness methods, facilitates method choice

S Malarcher, MS Fabic, J Spieler… - … Health: Science and …, 2016 - ghspjournal.org
When selecting a contraceptive method, women and men consider various attributes in
addition to effectiveness, such as side effects, return to fertility, level of medical intervention …

From birth control to self-awareness and free decision making. A model for the evaluation of comprehensive sexuality education from the perspective of women's …

B Obelenienė - 2022 - monografie.upjp2.edu.pl
The importance of appropriate and health-related information in the school curriculum is
emphasised in many international conventions and documents. Knowledge of how the …