Unwanted pregnancy is worldwide a public health problem affecting many couples. In Costa Rica, although the prevalence of contraceptive use among women is 82,1%; the rate of unwanted pregnancy in the last child is 47%. To explore knowledge, attitudes and practices about emergency contraception a sample of pharmacy professionals were interviewed. Using a structured questionnaire, indications, side effects, mechanism of action, efficacy, availability to prescribe and actual prescription of emergency contraception pills were explored. Results show a high level of knowledge, existence and effects of ECP. Also low knowledge of its effectiveness and mechanism of action was found. Prescription reached only 10% of interviewed professionals. It is c...
La presente investigación tiene por objetivo. Determinar la relación entre el nivel de conocimientos...
Treball Final de Grau en Infermeria. Codi: IN1138. Curs: 2016/2017Background : Emergency contrace...
Objective: In the last few years, the number of unplanned pregnancies has increased, especially in y...
Unwanted pregnancy is worldwide a public health problem affecting many couples. In Costa Rica, altho...
Introduction: Emergency contraception (EC) offers people an important second chance to prevent pregn...
Unwanted pregnancies are a non-resolved problem of public health worldwide, but the overwhelming maj...
This article presents the results of a study on the acceptability of emergency contraception (EC) in...
Se realizó una revisión bibliográfica sobre el tema, con el objetivo de lograr que nuestra población...
Introducción: cada año hay en el mundo cerca de 20 millones de abortos en condiciones de riesgo como...
A multi-center study was performed in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico to identify factors that may facilit...
Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate the general knowledge, attitude and practice ...
Objective: This study aimed to determine if nonprescription emergency contraception (EC) availabilit...
From the medical point o view, the definition of emergency contraception or post coital contraceptio...
The emergency contraceptive was developed for emergency use in order to avoid pregnancy, its mechani...
Introducing the post-coital birth control method in the family-planning services of Latin American c...
La presente investigación tiene por objetivo. Determinar la relación entre el nivel de conocimientos...
Treball Final de Grau en Infermeria. Codi: IN1138. Curs: 2016/2017Background : Emergency contrace...
Objective: In the last few years, the number of unplanned pregnancies has increased, especially in y...
Unwanted pregnancy is worldwide a public health problem affecting many couples. In Costa Rica, altho...
Introduction: Emergency contraception (EC) offers people an important second chance to prevent pregn...
Unwanted pregnancies are a non-resolved problem of public health worldwide, but the overwhelming maj...
This article presents the results of a study on the acceptability of emergency contraception (EC) in...
Se realizó una revisión bibliográfica sobre el tema, con el objetivo de lograr que nuestra población...
Introducción: cada año hay en el mundo cerca de 20 millones de abortos en condiciones de riesgo como...
A multi-center study was performed in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico to identify factors that may facilit...
Objective: The objective of this study was to estimate the general knowledge, attitude and practice ...
Objective: This study aimed to determine if nonprescription emergency contraception (EC) availabilit...
From the medical point o view, the definition of emergency contraception or post coital contraceptio...
The emergency contraceptive was developed for emergency use in order to avoid pregnancy, its mechani...
Introducing the post-coital birth control method in the family-planning services of Latin American c...
La presente investigación tiene por objetivo. Determinar la relación entre el nivel de conocimientos...
Treball Final de Grau en Infermeria. Codi: IN1138. Curs: 2016/2017Background : Emergency contrace...
Objective: In the last few years, the number of unplanned pregnancies has increased, especially in y...