Reasons for rejecting hormonal contraception in Western countries: A systematic review.

Over the past decade, women in Western countries have taken to various social media platforms to share their dissatisfactory experiences with hormonal contraception, which may be pills, patches, rings, injectables, implants or hormonal intrauterine devices (IUDs). These online testimonials have been denounced as spreading "hormonophobia", i.e.

Are the Well Suited for Studying Same-Sex Couples?

Different studies of same-sex couples based on the (GSS) have been published in recent years. However, in this survey, people in gay and lesbian couples are not identified via a direct question but by comparing two separate variables: the sex of the respondent and that of the partner. But the identification of same-sex couples by comparing the sex of both partners is very unreliable.

Unplanned or unwanted? A randomized study of national estimates of pregnancy intentions.

Objective: To evaluate the effect of question wording on national estimates of pregnancy intentions.

Design: Data drawn from a national probability survey.

Setting: The FECOND study in France in 2010.