Building Capacity for Research on Community Doula Care: A Stakeholder-Engaged Process in California.

Purpose: In an effort to address persistent inequities in maternal and infant health, policymakers and advocates have pushed to expand access to doula care. Several states, including California, now cover doula services through Medicaid. As coverage expands, research on the impact of doula care will likely increase.

"A patient should not have to ask": Women's experiences of patient education about preconception care for type 2 diabetes.

Objectives: To characterize perspectives and experiences regarding preconception care (PCC) patient education among women with type 2 diabetes.

Method: Descriptive, qualitative research design. Thirty-two English-speaking women with type 2 diabetes identifying as Black and/or Latina, ages 18-40 years old, participated.

Experiences of Preconception Counseling among Pregnant Women with Preexisting Diabetes: Opportunities to Improve Patient-Centered Care.

Available research suggests that patients with diabetes do not regularly receive preconception counseling, but information on patients' experiences of counseling is scant. We conducted a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with 22 patients between October 2020 and February 2021. Pregnant patients with preexisting diabetes were recruited from a specialty diabetes and pregnancy clinic at a large academic medical center in Northern California.

'We tend to prioritise others and forget ourselves': How women's caregiving responsibilities can facilitate or impede diabetes self-management.

Aim: The objective of the parent study was to examine attitudes and experiences regarding counselling about preconception care among Black and/or Latina women in the United States with type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Here, we present emergent findings from a secondary analysis of caregiving.

Methods: In this qualitative descriptive study, we used conventional content analysis to identify themes from semi-structured interviews with 32 Black and/or Latina women ages 18-40 who have T2DM in the United States recruited from online platforms and snowball sampling.

All in the Family: A Qualitative Study of the Early Experiences of Adults with Younger Onset Type 2 Diabetes.

Objective: Adults with type 2 diabetes diagnosed at a younger age are at increased risk for poor outcomes. We examined life stage-related facilitators and barriers to early self-management among younger adults with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes.

Research Design And Methods: We conducted 6 focus groups that each met twice between November 2017 and May 2018.

The association between depression and contraceptive behaviors in a diverse sample of new prescription contraception users.

Objective: Among women initiating new prescription contraception, we investigated the relationship between recent depression and a range of contraceptive behaviors.

Study Design: We used medical and pharmacy records of 52,325 women ages 19 to 29 who initiated prescription contraception (pills, patches or rings, injectables, and long-acting reversible contraceptives) in 2014-2016 at a large integrated healthcare system in Northern California. Women had continuous enrollment for a year before and after initiating, and no records of prescription contraceptive use in the year before initiating.

Prepregnancy Counseling Among U.S. Women With Diabetes and Hypertension, 2016-2018.

Introduction: Individuals who have diabetes or hypertension established before pregnancy are at increased risk for maternal and infant health complications. Guidelines recommend that providers deliver prepregnancy counseling, but little is known about the receipt of those services among patients with chronic conditions.

Methods: Data from the 2016-2018 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, a population-based survey among women with recent live births, were used.

A Randomized Encouragement Trial to Increase Mail Order Pharmacy Use and Medication Adherence in Patients with Diabetes.

Background: Mail order pharmacy (MOP) use has been linked to improved medication adherence and health outcomes among patients with diabetes. However, no large-scale intervention studies have assessed the effect of encouraging MOP use on medication adherence.

Objective: To assess an intervention to encourage MOP services to increase its use and medication adherence.

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diabetes Care Quality among Women of Reproductive Age in an Integrated Delivery System.

Background: Diabetes is increasingly prevalent among women of reproductive age, yet little is known about quality of diabetes care for this population at increased risk of diabetes complications and poor maternal and infant health outcomes. Previous studies have identified racial/ethnic disparities in diabetes care, but patterns among women of reproductive age have not been examined.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study analyzed 2016 data from Kaiser Permanente Northern California, a large integrated delivery system.

Opportunities to encourage mail order pharmacy delivery service use for diabetes prescriptions: a qualitative study.

Background: Medication non-adherence is a major contributor to poor outcomes in diabetes. Previous research has shown an association between use of mail order pharmacy delivery and better medication adherence, but little is known about the barriers and facilitators to mail order pharmacy use in diabetes patients. This qualitative study examined factors related to mail order pharmacy use versus traditional "brick and mortar" pharmacies to refill prescriptions.

Using Neighborhood-Level Census Data to Predict Diabetes Progression in Patients with Laboratory-Defined Prediabetes.

Context: Research on predictors of clinical outcomes usually focuses on the impact of individual patient factors, despite known relationships between neighborhood environment and health.

Objective: To determine whether US census information on where a patient resides is associated with diabetes development among patients with prediabetes.

Design: Retrospective cohort study of all 157,752 patients aged 18 years or older from Kaiser Permanente Northern California with laboratory-defined prediabetes (fasting plasma glucose, 100 mg/dL-125 mg/dL, and/or glycated hemoglobin, 5.

Young men's awareness and knowledge of intrauterine devices in the United States.

Objective: Increasing use of long-acting methods of contraception, such as intrauterine devices (IUDs), has been recognized as a promising strategy to reduce the incidence of unintended pregnancy. While men may play an important role in promoting or discouraging contraceptive use, very little research has examined men's knowledge of and attitudes toward IUDs.

Study Design: We used data from the 903 men included in the 2009 National Survey of Reproductive and Contraceptive Knowledge to examine their awareness and knowledge of IUDs and other contraceptive methods by several individual-level characteristics.