Family Planning Perspectives articles from July 1997

Family Planning Perspectives archives from July 1997

Men's behavior change following infection with with a sexually transmitted disease.
July 1, 1997... An analysis of data on 20-39-year-old men participating in the 1991 National Survey of Men finds that of 466 respondents who had ever had a sexually transmitted disease (STD), 25% had sex while infected. However, 85% of these men informed their...

Selective screening for chlamydial infection in women: a comparison of three sets of criteria.
July 1, 1997... Selective screening has been associated with marked declines in the prevalence of chlamydial infection, the most common bacterial sexually transmitted disease (STD) in the United States. A comparison of the performance of different selective...

Screening criteria for chlamydia trachomatis in family planning clinics: accounting for prevalence and clients' characteristics.
July 1, 1997... The reliability of eight self-reported risk factors as criteria for screening women for trachomatis was evaluated in four family planning clinics in New York State that serve diverse populations. In all, 8,920 women were screened in these...

Urban adolescent females' views on the implant and contraceptive decision- making: a double paradox.
July 1, 1997... Focus groups and in-depth interviews were used to explore the decline in popularity of the contraceptive implant in a clinic-based sample of 41 ethnically diverse, urban, sexually active adolescents. While these teenagers' socioeconomic status...

Pregnancy prevention among urban adolescents younger than 15: results of the 'In Your Face' program.
July 1, 1997... Data from a pregnancy prevention program operating through school-based clinics in four New York City junior high schools suggest that an intensive risk-identification and case-management approach may be effective among very young adolescents....

The measurement of public opinion on abortion: effects of survey design.
July 1, 1997... A factorial experiment examined the effects of the wording and sequence of survey questions on the measurement of attitudes toward abortion. When a first-trimester pregnancy is specified, 55% of respondents agree that a woman should be able to...

Factors associated with use of the female condom.
July 1, 1997... Black, Hispanic and white women recruited for an HIV prevention intervention were instructed in the use of the female condom and encouraged to try the device. Of the 231 women who completed the intervention, 29% tried the condom over the course...

Increasing the availability of vasectomy in public sector clinics.
July 1, 1997... A program designed to improve the availability of vasectomy in public-sector clinics trained physicians at 43 facilities in no-scalpel vasectomy between 1993 and 1995. Among the 36 clinics that responded to a follow-up survey in 1996, the number...

The Colorado parental rights amendment: how and why it failed.
July 1, 1997... In November 1996, by a margin of 57% to 43%,[1] Colorado voters soundly rejected Amendment 17, a proposed change to the state constitution giving parents the right "to direct and control the upbringing, education, values and discipline of...