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Sexual, relationship, contraceptive and personal factors influencing emergency contraception use: a qualitative study
Amy Neustadt1, Sabrina Holmquist, Shawna Davis
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
Background:
Emergency contraception (EC) has not achieved its abortion reduction potential in the United States in part due to nonuse. Understanding use behaviors may increase EC promotion.
Study Design:
Interviews were conducted with 30 EC users aged 18-35 years. Interviews were analyzed for salient themes using ATLAS/ti. We used an analytical framework including personal context (life circumstances motivating pregnancy prevention), contraceptive context (knowledge, attitudes and experience), sexual context (planned/unplanned intercourse) and relationship context.
Results:
Our sample was primarily college-educated, nulliparous, single women. EC users were motivated to prevent pregnancy, but unwilling or unable to use contraceptive methods due to ambivalence, fear, limited access or difficulty with use. Favorable attitudes toward EC, desire to defer pregnancy, infrequent intercourse, partner support of EC and relationship instability facilitated EC use.
Conclusions:
EC fills an important gap in preventing pregnancy for motivated women who struggle with contraceptive use. Contextual factors informed women's EC behaviors.
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