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Showing result 6 - 10 of 13 swedish dissertations containing the words emergency contraception.

2. 6. Sexual Risk Taking : – Perceptions of Contraceptive Use, Abortion, and Sexually Transmitted Infections Among Adolescents in Sweden

   Author : Maria Ekstrand; Margareta Larsson; Tanja Tydén; Elisabeth Darj; Ann Lalos; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Obstetrics and gynaecology; Adolescents; attitudes; sexual risk taking; contraceptive use; unintended pregnancy; teenage abortion; communication; gender; decision making; STI; Chlamydia; condom use; Health Belief Model; emergency contraception; RCT; Obstetrik och kvinnosjukdomar;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to inestigate Swedish adolescents' perceptions and behaviours regarding sexual risk taking. Specific objectives were to explore teenagers' perceptions of contraceptive use, unintended pregnancy, and abortion; teenage girls' experiences of decision making process and support connected to abortion; and male adolescents' perceptions of sexual risk taking and barriers to practicing safe sex. READ MORE

4. 7. Worlds Apart? : Sexual Behaviour, Contraceptive Use, and Pornography Consumption Among Young Women and Men

   Author : Elisabet Häggström-Nordin; Tanja Tydén; Ulf Hanson; Barbro Wijma; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Caring sciences; Adolescents; attitudes; emergency contraception; gender differences; grounded theory; pornography; sexual behavior; Sweden; youth; Vårdvetenskap; Caring sciences; Vårdvetenskap;

   Abstract : The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate the knowledge of, attitudes toward, and experiences of the emergency contraceptive pill (ECP), sexual behaviour, and pornography consumption among high school students and young people. Data were obtained by questionnaires (studies I, II, and III), and by qualitative in-depth interviews (study IV). READ MORE

5. 8. Increasing uptake of long-acting reversible contraception : LARC

   Author : Niklas Envall; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : BACKGROUND: Unintended pregnancies are an inexhaustible source to life-changing decisions and events for individuals and result in enormous costs for societies having to deal with maternal health services, deliveries, hospital care and abortions. Unmet need of contraception is a contributing factor to unintended pregnancies. READ MORE

6. 9. Progesterone receptor modulators in contraception : clinical implications of ovarian and endometrial effects

   Author : Cecilia Berger; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Background: Emergency contraception (EC) offers a last chance to prevent an unwanted pregnancy after unprotected sexual intercourse (UPSI) but before pregnancy occurs, for example after contraceptive failure, non-use of contraception or after rape. Progesterone receptor modulators (PRMs) exert their effect through acting as partial antagonists and partial agonists of the progesterone receptor (PR) and have proven effective for EC in low doses by postponing or inhibiting ovulation if it was taken preovulatory in the menstrual cycle. READ MORE

7. 10. Endometrial receptivity and development of new contraceptive methods

   Author : Lena Marions; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
   Keywords : Mifepristone; levonorgestrel; endometrial receptivity; emergency contraception; blastocyst implantation; integrins; cyclooxygenase;

   Abstract : Ovulation and endometrial development as well as contraceptive efficacy was studied after treatment with the antiprogestin mifepristone. Mechanism of action after treatment with the gestagen levonorgestrel or mifepristone in doses effective for emergency contraception was also evaluated. READ MORE