- Title
- A qualitative analysis of women's explanations for changing contraception: the importance of non-contraceptive effects
- Creator
- Wigginton, Britta; Harris, Melissa L.; Loxton, Deborah; Lucke, Jayne C.
- Relation
- Funding BodyARCGrant NumberLP100200349 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/LP100200349
- Relation
- Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care Vol. 42, Issue 4, p. 256-262
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jfprhc-2015-101184
- Publisher
- BMJ Group
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- 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.Using qualitative data from a contraceptive survey of young Australian women, we explored women's explanations for their recent changes in contraception.A thematic analysis of 1051 responses to a question about why women recently changed contraception was conducted.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.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'.
- Subject
- contraception; women; changing contraception; non-contraceptive effects
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1326826
- Identifier
- uon:25519
- Identifier
- ISSN:1471-1893
- Rights
- © 2016. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Language
- eng
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