Fertility and infertility uses of menstrual apps from the perspectives of healthcare providers and patients.

Background: Menstrual cycle tracking apps are increasingly used by those trying to conceive as well as those diagnosed and treated for infertility. However, the small amount of existing research about the use of these apps does not include the perspectives of healthcare providers.

Aims: This study explores how healthcare providers describe the role of menstrual apps in fertility and infertility health care, and how this compares with patients' views.

Sexual and reproductive health knowledges: a study with Pacific young people enrolled in an Aotearoa New Zealand tertiary institution.

Pacific young people living in Aotearoa New Zealand experience disparities in their sexual and reproductive health outcomes, thought to stem from cultural differences and educational inequities. Although these barriers have been characterised in literature, their influence on Pacific youth's understandings of sexual and reproductive health have been relatively unexplored. This study investigated the sexual and reproductive health knowledge of Pacific students enrolled at a university in Aotearoa New Zealand in 2020 and where they gained this knowledge.

The role of menstrual apps in healthcare: provider and patient perspectives.

Aim: This study aimed to understand the role that menstrual apps ("period tracking apps" or "fertility apps") could perform in healthcare.

Methods: Expert stakeholders including healthcare providers, app users, and patients offered perspectives on potential benefits, concerns, and role of apps in healthcare. Responses from an online qualitative survey (N=144) and three online focus groups (N=10) were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.

The other side of the story: Intended parents' surrogacy journeys, stigma and relational reproductive justice.

Current surrogacy research primarily focuses on commercial surrogacy with a particular emphasis on experiences of surrogate mothers, whereas intended parents' voices are dominated by western perspectives. Indigenous voices are only a whisper. This study presents another side of the surrogacy story by including the voices of intended parents residing in India, elicited through eight in-depth interviews.

Unplanned pregnancies of women with chronic health conditions in New Zealand.

Aim: Chronic health conditions can pose risks for pregnancy and childbearing which may be mitigated by preconception care and pregnancy planning. The objective of this study is to identify the proportion of pregnancies reported as unplanned among women in New Zealand with chronic health conditions and the co-occurrence of these pregnancies with socioeconomc disadvantage.

Method: This study included 6,822 pregnant women in the Growing Up in New Zealand study.

Unplanned pregnancies in New Zealand.

Background: Unplanned pregnancies can bring risk. It is important to have an accurate count of unplanned pregnancies, but to date there is no precise number for New Zealand or Australia.

Aims: This analysis estimates the number and proportion of pregnancies in New Zealand that are unplanned.

The couple context of pregnancy and its effects on prenatal care and birth outcomes.

The couple context of pregnancy and newborn health is gaining importance with the increase in births to unmarried couples, a disproportionate number of which were not intended. This study investigates the association of early prenatal care, preterm birth, and low birth weight with the couple relationship context, including partners' joint intentions for the pregnancy, their marital status at conception, and the presence of relationship problems during pregnancy. Data are drawn from the first wave of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study--Birth Cohort, a representative study of births in 2001.

Majority Rules? The Effects of School Ethnic Composition on Substance Use by Mexican Heritage Adolescents.

This article examines key aspects of the school environment - its composition by ethnicity and acculturation - as important social contexts for understanding Mexican immigrant and Mexican American adolescents' drug use norms and behaviors. Results are presented based on surveys completed by Mexican-background students from 35 Phoenix. Arizona middle schools, whose enrollment ranged from a numerical minority to an overwhelming majority.

An Ecological Assessment of Drug-Related Problem Situations for American Indian Adolescents of the Southwest.

This study examined difficult situations related to drug and alcohol use as identified by American Indian youth in the South-west. Sixty-two contextually based items were developed from focus group data, and were administered to 71 American Indian youth. The items measured the frequency in which youth experienced specific drug-related situations, as well as the perceived difficulty in resisting drug use offers in those situations: The results indicated that the most frequent and difficult drug and alcohol situations occurred primarily with friends or cousins at their homes or after school.