The socioeconomic characteristics of risky sexual behaviour among reproductive-age women in St Petersburg

Abstract

In addition to youth, sexual education should be targeted to older women, many of whom practice risky sexual behaviour.

The determinants of sexually transmitted infections among reproductive age women in St. Petersburg, Estonia and Finland

“…Some women completed the questionnaire at home. More detailed descriptions have been published previously (Kesseli et al 2005;Regushevskaya et al 2008).…”

“…In accordance with the definition found in the literature, for some analyses we created a technical variable (Finner et al 1999;Johnson et al 2001;Regushevskaya et al 2008) ''risky sexual behaviour'', consisting of any of the following: aged below 18 at first intercourse, no condom use in the first intercourse, having two or more sexual partners in the previous year, four or more lifetime sexual partners, and parallel sexual relationships.…”

Direct Costs of Unintended Pregnancy in the Russian Federation

“…90 and 10 %, respectively, and resulted in a lower average cost of induced terminations (US$112 versus US$398 in this analysis) [10]. In this model, termination costs were derived in a similar manner, but included weeks 22-27, giving a frequency distribution per trimester of 95.5 % for weeks 0-11, 3 % for weeks 12-21, and 1.5 % for weeks [22][23][24][25][26][27], and resulted in inclusion of the higher cost trimester.…”

“…Although classified in the same category as fertility awareness methods by the WHO, several Russia-based studies considered male condom to be a reliable method [21][22][23][24][25]. Therefore, the model considered the impact of reclassifying male condom from an unreliable method to a reliable method.…”

Pregnancy prevention, reproductive health risk and morality: a perspective from public-sector women's clinics in St. Petersburg, Russia

“…The use of reliable contraception has not increased considerably in Russia, and many women still do not use contraception but rather resort to unreliable or so-called natural methods such as withdrawal, rhythm and vaginal douching. Not using contraception or using unreliable methods is exceptionally frequent when compared with European countries, for example (Chalmers and Sand 1998, Rankin-Williams 2001, SherwoodFabre et al 2002, Regushevskaya et al 2008, 2009, Perlman and McKee 2009. As for St. Petersburg, the use of effective contraceptive methods has not increased or the use of unreliable methods has not decreased substantially between (Haavio-Mannila and Kontula 2003, Regushevskaya et al 2009).…”