Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health articles from December 2005

Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health archives from December 2005

Teenagers, dating violence and disease.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Teenage women's patterns of STD testing and diagnosis may be related to their experience of dating violence. (1) One-third of sexually active Massachusetts women participating in the 1999 and 2001 Youth Risk Behavior Surveys had ever been...

Score one for the condom.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... A study using data from an electronic medical database provides "an improved estimate of condom effectiveness" for preventing chlamydia infection. (1) Use of the database permitted analysts to examine data on all clients seen at a public STD...

Is Viagra a club drug?(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... In a 2002-2003 survey of San Francisco men who have sex with men, reported levels of recent use of sildenafil (Viagra) were elevated among men who engaged in risky behaviors. (1) Overall, 29% of respondents had used the drug within the past six...

Good news about an IUD.(intra-uterine device)
December 1, 2005... Finnish women who had a levonorgestrel-releasing IUD inserted between 1990 and 1993 had no higher incidence of breast cancer up to 10 years later than did the average 30-54-year-old woman in Finland, according to an analysis comparing data from...

HAART can be hard.(highly active antiretroviral therapy)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... HIV-infected teenagers may need help in adhering to regimens of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). (1) In 1998, researchers conducting a multisite, longitudinal study of HIV disease progression in adolescents added questions about...

Blood clots in pregnancy.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Pregnant women's risk of venous thromboembolism--blood clots forming in deep veins, which may travel to the lungs--appears to begin early in gestation, according to findings from a multisite study of the condition conducted in 2001-2002. (1) Of...

A little bit of pill use can go a long way.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Women who use the pill for as little as six months have a reduced risk of ovarian cancer, but the association applies only to those who discontinued the method because of side effects. (1) In a study of ovarian cancer patients at 39...

New look at trichomoniasis.(infection of the vagina)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... Three percent of participants in Wave 3 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health who provided urine samples for STD testing had trichomoniasis, a frequently asymptomatic infection whose prevalence has not previously been studied...

Talk what talk?(english speaking women)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2005... U.S. women who are not proficient in English may miss out on important health screening, according to findings from a multisite study of women making the transition to menopause. (1) In yearly study visits between 1997 and 2002, an average of...

Saving sex for later: an evaluation of a parent education intervention.(critical health objectives)
December 1, 2005... Increasing the proportion of adolescents who remain sexually abstinent and reducing the numbers of teenage pregnancies and STDs rank high among the critical health objectives highlighted in the 2004 federal report Improving the Health of...

Social-cognitive predictors of consistent condom use among young people in Moscow.(protection against sexually transmitted infections)
December 1, 2005... Russia is experiencing an explosive HIV epidemic and has one of the fastest growing incidence rates in the world. According to the Russian Federal AIDS Center, the number of people infected with HIV increased from 1,080 at the end of 1995 to...

Pregnancy planning status and health behaviors among nonpregnant women in a California managed health care organization.(surveys)
December 1, 2005... A number of health behaviors, including alcohol use, (1) cigarette smoking, (2) late initiation of prenatal care (3) and inadequate folic acid consumption, (4) are associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes and can have lasting effects on the...

Consistency of condom use among low-income hormonal contraceptive users.(birth control methods)
December 1, 2005... Oral contraceptives are the leading birth control method among U.S. women younger than 30, and are used by 19% of all women aged 15-44. The injectable depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) is the second most commonly used hormonal method...

Parent-child relations among minor females attending U.S. family planning clinics.(surveys)
December 1, 2005... The extent to which parents should be involved in their adolescent children's decisions to have sex and use contraceptives is a sensitive issue, as well as one that has policy and programmatic implications. Positive parent-child relations are...

Infants' birth weight may be jeopardized when women become unemployed or underemployed while pregnant.(DIGESTS)
December 1, 2005... Certain adverse changes in a woman's employment during pregnancy are related to reduced infant birth weight, according to a study conducted among a nationally representative sample of U.S. women. (1) Compared with women who remained employed at...

For pregnant women, silence on domestic violence speaks loudly.(surveys)
December 1, 2005... Pregnant women reporting abuse are at increased risk for certain adverse pregnancy outcomes: When compared with women who report no abuse, those reporting verbal abuse are more likely to deliver an infant of low birth weight, and those...

In certain circumstances, women in prenatal care would not rule out having an abortion in the future.(surveys)
December 1, 2005... Seven in 10 women in a diverse sample of prenatal care patients said that they would consider terminating a subsequent pregnancy, but among this group, the proportions who would consider having an abortion for various reasons ranged widely. (1)...

Nonprescription access has not raised UK women's reliance on emergency pills.(surveys)
December 1, 2005... Making emergency hormonal contraception available over the counter is not associated with an increase in its use, according to surveys conducted in Great Britain before and after nonprescription sale of this drug was legalized. (1) The...

Differences in early romantic relationships do not account for racial gap in youths' marital expectations.(surveys)
December 1, 2005... Racial differences in early experiences with intimacy and commitment do not explain why white adolescents have a higher expectation than blacks of marrying in young adulthood. (1) In a study based on a nationally representative sample of...

Evidence supporting the notion that bacterial vaginosis can be transmitted sexually continues to accumulate.(research)
December 1, 2005... Bacterial vaginosis is associated with several high-risk sexual behaviors, such as having a large number of partners, according to findings from a clinic-based Australian study. (1) Although the cause of bacterial vaginosis has not been...