2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2010.05.009
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Recommendations for intrauterine contraception: a randomized trial of the effects of patients' race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Abstract: Objectives-Recommendations by health care providers have been found to vary by patient race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) and may contribute to health disparities. This study investigated the effect of these factors on recommendations for contraception.Study Design-One of 18 videos depicting patients of varying sociodemographic characteristics was shown to each of 524 health care providers. Providers indicated whether they would recommend levonorgestrel intrauterine contraception (IUC).Results-Low S… Show more

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“…Using data from the National Survey of Family Growth, we calculated the percent of teens 15-19 who had ever had sex by race to develop race-specific estimates. This percentage is multiplied by the number teens (15)(16)(17)(18)(19) of each race to estimate the number of sexually active teens by race. The number of sexually active teenagers in the United States is the denominator and the pregnancy rate is the numerator of the race specific estimates.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Using data from the National Survey of Family Growth, we calculated the percent of teens 15-19 who had ever had sex by race to develop race-specific estimates. This percentage is multiplied by the number teens (15)(16)(17)(18)(19) of each race to estimate the number of sexually active teens by race. The number of sexually active teenagers in the United States is the denominator and the pregnancy rate is the numerator of the race specific estimates.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This finding is consistent with other studies showing that 84% of progesterone injection users are black. 34,35,90 A greater percentage of white subjects (54.3%) than black subjects (28.6%) used the progesterone IUD. Socioeconomic status was not obtained in this study.…”
Section: Use Of Contraception Methodsmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…A patient's race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status have been shown to be factors in a practitioner's decision of recommendation for type of contraception, 35 which may account for why more white women than black women were using intrauterine contraception. Dehlendorf et al (2010) 35 noted in their study on provider recommendations for intrauterine contraception that white women of low socioeconomic status were significantly less likely than white women of high socioeconomic status to have intrauterine contraception recommended to them by their providers.…”
Section: Use Of Contraception Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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