Concern that contraception affects future fertility: How common is this concern among young people and does it stop them from using contraception?

Watson, Annalisa; Yarger, Jennifer; Sedlander, Erica; Urbina, Josephine; Hopkins, Kristine; Rodriguez, Maria I.; Fuentes, Liza; Harper, Cynthia C.

doi:10.1016/j.conx.2023.100103

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Online Misleading Information About Women’s Reproductive Health: A Narrative Review

John,

Gorman,

Scales

et al. 2024

J GEN INTERN MED

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Misinformation about reproductive health threatens to harm health outcomes, compromise medical trust, and enable misinformed policy restrictions. In recent years, reproductive health misinformation has proliferated online due to ideological campaigns and limited content moderation for reproductive health topics. Developing evidence-based practices to counter reproductive health misinformation requires an understanding of the content that women are exposed to online, which is currently lacking. This review sought to identify common claims and narratives about reproductive health on social media and the internet that could easily mislead. We performed a narrative review of articles about online reproductive health misinformation, from which we extracted misleading claims and narratives. We conducted a qualitative content analysis to describe the ways in which the claims and narratives could be misleading. We found that potentially misleading claims and narratives about reproductive topics relating to contraception and abortion, fertility, chronic disease, breast cancer, maternal health, and vaccines abound across social media platforms and websites, with 112 identified in total. One-third of this content could mislead by claiming that evidence-based interventions were associated with unattributed risks. Twenty-three percent made medical recommendations that do not align with professional guidelines. Fourteen percent promoted alternative medicine. Smaller numbers of claims and narratives exaggerated risks of medical interventions, discouraged evidence-based interventions, directly undermined medical trust, and proposed inaccurate biological mechanisms. Healthcare professionals can proactively promote evidence-based medical decision-making by increasing their awareness of prominent misleading claims and narratives.

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