What is it about?
Long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) is the ideal contraceptive of choice for adolescents. It is not known whether immediate postpartum contraceptive counseling increases postpartum LARC use in adolescents. This paper compares LARC use between immediate and conventional postpartum contraceptive counseling and discover predictive factors of postpartum LARC use.
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Why is it important?
There has not yet been a prospective study of contraceptive counseling during the immediate postpartum period among adolescents. This study found that immediate postpartum contraceptive counseling led to a significant increase in postpartum use of LARC in adolescents, when compared with conventional (4–6 weeks) postpartum contraceptive counseling. Adolescent mothers who received immediate postpartum counseling were 3.67 times more likely to use LARC than those who received conventional postpartum counseling.
Perspectives
This is the first report of prospective randomized controlled trial of immediate postpartum contraceptive counseling. I hope this article is useful for health care providers to apply for family planning practice, to decrease adolescent pregnancy rate.
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This page is a summary of: Effects of immediate postpartum contraceptive counseling on long-acting reversible contraceptive use in adolescents, Adolescent Health Medicine and Therapeutics, October 2017, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/ahmt.s148434.
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