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Prevalence of emergency contraceptive pill use among Spanish adolescent girls and their family and psychological profiles

Authors: Antonia Jiménez-Iglesias, Carmen Moreno, Irene García-Moya, Francisco Rivera

Published in: BMC Women's Health | Issue 1/2018

Abstract

Background

Adolescent girls’ family context and psychological characteristics play important roles in their sexual behavior, including the use of the emergency contraceptive pill (ECP). This study aims to (1) determine the prevalence of ECP use among girls who have had sexual intercourse and (2) comparatively analyze their family and psychological profiles according to whether they have used ECPs.

Methods

The sample of 1735 Spanish girls aged 15 to 18 came from a representative sample of the 2014 edition of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Of this sample, 398 girls had sexual intercourse and reported their ECP use. Data collection for the HBSC study was performed through an online questionnaire to which adolescents responded anonymously in school. Data analyses were descriptive and bivariate and were performed with the statistical program IBM SPSS Statistics 23.

Results

The results demonstrated that 30.65% of girls who had sexual intercourse used ECPs. Noticeable differences in paternal knowledge and communication with the father were observed between girls who used the ECP at least once and those who did not use it. In contrast, differences between girls who used the ECP once and those who used it twice or more were pronounced with regard to parental knowledge, communication with parents, maternal affection, life satisfaction, sense of coherence and depression.

Conclusions

This work demonstrates a high prevalence of ECP use and a more positive family and psychological profile for girls who used ECP once compared with those who used it twice or more.

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Title: Prevalence of emergency contraceptive pill use among Spanish adolescent girls and their family and psychological profiles
Authors: Antonia Jiménez-Iglesias
Carmen Moreno
Irene García-Moya
Francisco Rivera
Publication date: 01-12-2018
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: BMC Women's Health / Issue 1/2018
Electronic ISSN: 1472-6874
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12905-018-0560-x

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Prevalence of emergency contraceptive pill use among Spanish adolescent girls and their family and psychological profiles

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Results

Conclusions

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