Pregnancy planning and neonatal outcome - a retrospective cohort study.

Background: Unplanned pregnancy is common, and although some research indicates adverse outcomes for the neonate, such as death, low birth weight, and preterm birth, results are inconsistent. The purpose of the present study was to investigate associated neonatal outcomes of an unplanned pregnancy in a Swedish setting.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study in which data from 2953 women were retrieved from the Swedish Pregnancy Planning Study, covering ten Swedish counties from September 2012 through July 2013.

Contraceptive use among women seeking an early induced abortion in Sweden.

Introduction: In spite of societal efforts to strengthen women's sexual and reproductive health in Sweden, many women have unmet contraceptive needs and the abortion rate remains high. The aim of this study was to investigate contraceptive use among abortion-seeking women.

Material And Methods: Swedish-speaking women seeking an induced abortion up to the end of gestational week 12 at seven hospitals filled out an anonymous paper questionnaire between January and June 2021.

Unplanned pregnancy and the association with maternal health and pregnancy outcomes: A Swedish cohort study.

Objectives: Unplanned pregnancies are common and associated with late initiation and inadequate antenatal care attendance, which may pose health risks to mother and child. How pregnancy planning relates to maternal health and delivery in Sweden, a country with free antenatal care and free abortion, has not been studied previously. Our aims were to study whether pregnancy planning was associated with antenatal care utilization and pregnancy outcomes in a Swedish setting.

Multiple induced abortions - implications for counselling and contraceptive services from a multi-centre cross-sectional study in Sweden.

Objectives: To investigate factors associated with multiple induced abortions.

Materials And Methods: A multi-centre cross-sectional survey among abortion-seeking women ( = 623;14-47y) in Sweden, 2021. 'Multiple abortions' was defined as having had ≥2 induced abortions.

Hormonal contraception and risk of breast cancer and breast cancer in situ among Swedish women 15-34 years of age: A nationwide register-based study.

Background: Evidence on a possible association between newer hormonal contraceptives (HC) and risk of breast cancer remains inconclusive, especially as concerns progestogen-only methods.

Methods: In this nationwide prospective cohort study, all Swedish women aged 15-34 at study start on January 1 2005, or who turned 15 years during the study period, were followed until December 31 2017. Using information from seven National Registers, we assessed the risk ratio of developing breast cancer and breast cancer in situ in relation to different HC using Poisson regression.

Family planning practices and women's impression of the reproductive life plan in Eswatini.

Objective: Family planning is limited and unplanned pregnancies are common in Eswatini. The Reproductive Life Plan (RLP) is a counselling tool to improve pregnancy planning. Mentor mothers, i.

Contraception use and attitudes: women's concerns regarding hormonal contraception and copper intrauterine devices.

Objective: To estimate the prevalence of contraceptive method use among women, assess concerns about hormonal contraception (HC) and copper intrauterine device (Cu-IUD) and determine characteristics associated with concerns of HC and Cu-IUD.

Method: Cross-sectional study. Swedish speaking women ( = 212) aged 16-50 attending midwives at four outpatient clinics in two of Sweden's larger cities answered a waiting room questionnaire.

Evaluating the implementation of the Reproductive Life Plan in disadvantaged communities: A mixed-methods study using the i-PARIHS framework.

Introduction: The Reproductive Life Plan (RLP) is a clinical tool to help clients find strategies to achieve their reproductive goals. Despite much research on the RLP from high-income countries, it has never been studied in low- or middle income countries. Together with health workers called Mentor Mothers (MMs), we used a context-adapted RLP in disadvantaged areas in Eswatini.

The perpetuating cycle of unplanned pregnancy: underlying causes and implications in Eswatini.

Unplanned pregnancies constitute a major health problem globally carrying negative social, economic and health consequences for individuals and families. In this study, we explored the underlying causes and implications of this phenomenon in Eswatini, a country with high rates of unplanned pregnancy. Three focus group discussions were conducted in January 2018 with female health workers called mentor mothers, chosen because they offer a twofold perspective, being both Swati women and health workers in socially and economically disadvantaged settings.

Foreign-born women's lifestyle and health before and during early pregnancy in Sweden.

The aims of the study were to investigate foreign-born women's lifestyle and health before and during early pregnancy and compare them with those of Nordic-born women. Women recruited at antenatal clinics in Sweden answered a questionnaire in Swedish, English or Arabic or by telephone interview with an interpreter. Questions covered pregnancy planning and periconceptional lifestyle and health.

Contraception use and unplanned pregnancies in a peri-urban area of eSwatini (Swaziland).

Background: Despite reported high levels of contraception use in eSwatini, unplanned pregnancies are common. The aims of this study were to investigate prevalence and determinants of contraception use and unplanned pregnancies in a disadvantaged area in the Kingdom of eSwatini (Swaziland), and to investigate the association between unplanned pregnancies and antenatal care attendance.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted at the non-governmental organization Siphilile Maternal and Child Health in Matsapha, a peri-urban industrial area, using data from pre-existing client records.

Development of an evidence-based website on preconception health.

Introduction: Many women and men lack knowledge about fertility, including timing of the fertile window, age-related decline, and lifestyle factors that may impair fertility. The Internet has become an important source of information, but evidence-based information on fertility and reproduction in Swedish on the Internet is limited. The present study aimed to develop and evaluate an evidence-based fertility awareness website, 'reproduktivlivsplan.