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03-11-2023 | Contraception | Letter to the Editor
Consistency of antenatal contraceptive plan and postpartum fulfillment in patients with opioid use disorder
Authors:
Tani Malhotra, Kathryn Thomas, David Ngendahimana, Kelly S Gibson, Kavita Shah Arora
Published in:
Archives of Women's Mental Health
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Issue 1/2024
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Excerpt
Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) have lower rates of receiving postpartum contraception, especially highly effective methods, than patients without OUD (Krans et al.
2018). Pregnant patients with a consistent plan for a postpartum contraceptive method (PCM) between prenatal care and hospital discharge after delivery are more likely to choose highly effective methods of contraception, although it is unclear whether this holds true for patients with OUD (Bhide et al.
2020). Given disparities in rates of postpartum contraception for patients with OUD, we sought to determine the relationship between the consistency of planned PCM and the effectiveness of chosen PCM for patients with OUD. …
