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- * A study with young Australian women looked at why they switched their contraception, analyzing over 1,000 responses.
- * The findings showed that many changes were made for reasons not related to pregnancy prevention, like health issues or relationship situations, highlighting that side effects go beyond just preventing pregnancy.
Article Abstract
Background: Women commonly report changing contraceptive methods because of side-effects. However, there is a lack of literature that has thoroughly examined women's perspectives, including why they changed contraception.
Aim: Using qualitative data from a contraceptive survey of young Australian women, we explored women's explanations for their recent changes in contraception.
Method: A thematic analysis of 1051 responses to a question about why women recently changed contraception was conducted.
Results: Themes reflected reasons for changing contraception which included: both contraceptive and non-contraceptive (4%); relationship/sexual (9%); medical (11%); contraceptive (18%); non-contraceptive (41%). A minority of responses were uncoded (17%). Non-contraceptive effects (effects unrelated to pregnancy prevention) featured most frequently in women's reasons for changing contraception.
Conclusions: While cessation of various contraceptives due to unwanted side-effects is a well-known phenomenon, this analysis provides evidence of the changing of contraception for its non-contraceptive effects and reframes the notion of 'side-effects'.
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