Contraception Initiation after Early Abortion in a Family Medicine Setting: A Retrospective Chart Review.

Objectives: Early abortion increasingly is provided in the primary care setting, allowing improved access, continuity of care, and contraception, if desired. We aimed in this retrospective chart review to describe postabortion contraception provision in a family medicine office.

Methods: Participants were those patients who obtained an induced abortion during an 11-year period at a family medicine office.

Exploring the experience of IUD self-removal in the United States through posts on internet forums.

Objective: Some intrauterine devices (IUD) users self-remove their IUDs, and these experiences are not well understood. This study examines what IUD users post in internet forums about their experience, as well as advice and questions shared among IUD users about self-removal.

Study Design: This study uses qualitative analysis of internet health and parenting forum postings about IUD self-removal identified from an internet search engine.

Ultrasound location of intrauterine devices placed at cesarean section over the first year postpartum.

Objectives: The primary objective was to measure IUD-fundus and IUD-myometrium distances by ultrasound of IUDs placed during cesarean section over the first year of use. The secondary objective was to determine if these distances are associated with risk of expulsion or removal for side effects.

Study Design: In this prospective observational study, we performed ultrasounds at six - ten weeks, three months and one year postpartum to measure the distance from the top of the device to the fundal serosa (IUD-fundus) and upper margin of the endometrial cavity (IUD-myometrium).

"$231 … to pull a string!!!" American IUD users' reasons for IUD self-removal: An analysis of internet forums.

Objective: The perspectives and experiences of intrauterine device (IUD) users who consider IUD self-removal are largely unknown. This study describes the reasons for IUD self-removal as documented in internet forums by IUD users discussing self-removal.

Study Design: This qualitative study used an internet search strategy to document IUD users' reasons for self-removal in the United States.

"Just Wear Dark Underpants Mainly": Learning from Adolescents' and Young Adults' Experiences with Early Discontinuation of the Contraceptive Implant.

Study Objective: Long-acting reversible contraception, including the contraceptive implant, is recommended for teens and young women. However, some young women discontinue the implant early, and we seek to better understand their experiences.

Design, Setting, And Participants: We conducted interviews with 16 young women ages 14 to 24 who presented for removal of the contraceptive implant within 6 months after placement at outpatient adolescent, family medicine, and obstetrics and gynecology clinics.