Depo Now: Preventing Unintended Pregnancies among Adolescents and Young Adults

173. Does Immediate Access to Birth Control Help Prevent Pregnancy? A Comparison of Onsite Provision Versus Off-Campus Referral for Contraception at Two School-Based Clinics

“…This is supported by data that demonstrate higher compliance rates and lower pregnancies rates with injectable long acting progestin involving same day or Quick Start method as compared to oral contraceptive pill use. 17 In addition, the availability of condoms and emergency contraception or method switching may have lowered the pregnancy rate at the school with onsite hormonal contraceptive services. Finally, pregnant girls may have dropped out of both schools and use of other medications interfering with oral contraceptive pills may have affected rates in both locations.…”

“…In 2010, the national birth rate was 39.1 per 1,000 women aged [15][16][17][18][19]. 1 The teen birth rate in Texas is particularly high at 63.4 per 1,000, the third highest rate in the country.…”

“…2 High birth rates are indicative of even higher pregnancy rates, as not all pregnancies are carried to term. In fact, Texas has the fourth highest teen pregnancy rate in the nation at 101 per 1,000 teens ages [15][16][17][18][19], versus the national rate of 84 per 1,000. 3 This rate is projected to increase by 13% by the year 2015, resulting in a projected rate of 127 per 1,000.…”

Contraceptive care for Canadian youth

“…For methods where the youth must return to the clinical setting for initiation-e.g., a DMPA or IUC insertion-coordinating provider/patient availability could delay contraceptive initiation by months, with risk for pregnancy in the interim (40). Among youth choosing a COC, who can start their prescription without further provider involvement, it was found that instructing them to wait until their next period to start lowered the likelihood of succession to a second pack of pills (41).…”

The Effects of Resilience and Social Influences on Preventing Repeat Adolescent Pregnancies in Parenting Adolescent Mothers

“…Another study compared mothers who used DMPA at their initial postpartum clinic visit to mothers who selected a short term method with plans for DMPA at the next visit (Rickert et al, 2007). Those participants in the short term contraceptive group were four times more likely to have a repeat pregnancy than those mothers who received DMPA at their initial visit.…”