Disability, sexual and reproductive health: a scoping review of healthcare professionals' views on their confidence and competence in care provision.

Background: The sexual and reproductive needs of people with disabilities are often unmet. Healthcare professionals play an important role in meeting these needs.

Objective: To explore the views of healthcare professionals on their confidence and competence in providing sexual and reproductive healthcare to people with disabilities.

Women's experiences of self-referral to an abortion service: qualitative study.

Background: Guidelines from the UK recommend that women should be able to self-refer to abortion services. In 2016, a self-referral system was introduced to the abortion service in Edinburgh, Scotland, as an option for women. Women could telephone a dedicated phone line during office hours and speak to an administrative assistant working in the abortion service who provided them the next available appointment to be seen in the service.

Sexual and reproductive healthcare providers' opinions on expansion of pharmacy-led provision of contraception.

Introduction: Reduced funding to contraceptive services in the UK is resulting in restricted access for women. Pharmacists are already embedded in sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care in the UK and could provide an alternative way for women to access contraception. The aim of this study was to determine the views of UK contraception providers about community pharmacist-led contraception provision.

Initiating intramuscular depot medroxyprogesterone acetate 24-48 hours after mifepristone administration does not affect success of early medical abortion.

Objectives: The primary objective of this study was to determine whether intramuscular depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (IM DMPA) given at the time of misoprostol administration, 24-48 hours after mifepristone, affects the rate of continuing pregnancy. In addition, the study explored factors predictive of continuing pregnancy.

Design: Case-control study based on database review of women who underwent early medical abortion (EMA) over a 4-year period.

Quick starting hormonal contraception after using oral emergency contraception: a systematic review.

Introduction: Unprotected intercourse after oral emergency contraception (EC) significantly increases pregnancy risk. This underlies the importance of promptly starting effective, ongoing contraception - known as 'quick starting'. However, theoretical concern exists that quick starting might interact with EC or hormonal contraception (HC) potentially causing adverse side effects.

Views of general practitioners on providing contraceptive advice and long-acting reversible contraception at the 6-week postnatal visit: a qualitative study.

Background: Increased uptake of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) postpartum could prevent more unintended pregnancies and short inter-birth intervals. General practitioners (GPs) play a pivotal role in providing postpartum contraception at the 6-week postnatal visit.

Aim: To explore how GPs view their role in delivering postpartum contraception at the 6-week visit and on providing LARC at this time.

How well do women recall past contraceptive use? A pilot study.

Background And Methodology: Many women use a variety of contraceptive methods during their reproductive lives. Investigating this exposure is one of the most frequently performed epidemiological investigations. Accurate recall of methods used, as well as validating this information, can be difficult.

Why are rates of sterilization in decline? A pilot study designed to explore reasons for declining female sterilization in Scotland.

Background: In the last decade, female sterilization had been in decline throughout the UK. It is not clear whether fewer women are requesting sterilization or whether the universal enthusiasm for long-acting reversible methods is leading health professionals to discourage women from being sterilized. Since correct and consistent use of alternative, reversible contraceptive methods depends somewhat on their acceptability, it is important to determine whether women are being refused sterilization or whether they are freely choosing other methods.