{"title":"Contraceptives for the 21st century.","authors":"A Glasier","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21665962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'CE-Marking' on contraceptive devices: what does it mean?","authors":"W Bounds","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"54-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21631036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Depo provera discussion paper on clinical care, effectiveness and side effects","authors":"Bigrigg, Evans, Gbolade, Newton, Pollard, Szarewski, Walling","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent changes to the health services have led to an increased provision of clinical care in family planning clinics. While some women may only require contraceptive services, others may demand advice on a breadth of lifestyle issues, including diet and nutrition. Obesity affects 17% of women of childbearing age in Scotland and being overweight during pregnancy has significant health risks. A postal survey of 227 nurses identified as working in family planning clinics in Scotland was conducted in 1998. After a mail shot and one reminder, a net response rate of 64% (n = 145) was achieved. Overall, it was found that obesity was perceived as the most extensive problem in women of childbearing age. Seventy nurses (48%) reported that, in addition to offering family planning services, they gave dietary advice 'frequently' or 'always' to their clients without being asked. There were differences in nutrition-related activities in consultations between nurses offering family planning services only and those who routinely offered nutritional advice. Over half (61%) of the nurses reported that they would give advice regarding weight management even if the patients were not seeking help, although there was no significant difference between the two comparison groups. In some cases, the nutritional advice offered to clients highlighted a deficit in training. Most nutrition education came from diploma and/or training courses and scientific literature, followed by 'experience'. Those nurses already embracing a nutritional advice and guidance role were more interested in further nutrition training (p = 0.018) than the other nurses. However, overall, 67% of the nurses wished to train further in nutrition and weight management. The findings suggest that family planning nurses should be supported to develop nutritional advice and guidance skills, and that there is a pressing need for training in public health nutrition and weight management for nurses working in family planning services.</p>","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"97-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21631035","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The current status of intra-uterine contraceptive devices and systems.","authors":"J Newton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"14-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21665956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faculty of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. First prescription of combined oral contraception: recommendations for clinical practice.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"27-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21665960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contraceptive devices and the medical devices directive.","authors":"A Austin","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Medical Devices Agency (MDA), an executive agency of the Department of Health, has responsibility for the safety of medical devices within the UK. The MDA is responsible for enforcing the European Medical Devices Directive (MDD) within the UK. Contraceptive devices such as copper-containing IUDs and condoms are regulated by the MDD, and this brief report is an introduction to it.</p>","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21630895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Historical review of the combined oral contraceptive pill and injectable progestogens.","authors":"A Szarewski","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"10-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21664910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The global challenges for family planning in the 21st century.","authors":"P Senanayake","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"19-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21665959","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating the balance of general practice versus family planning clinic coverage of contraception services in London.","authors":"M Bardsley, M Newman, D Morgan, B Jacobson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To compare levels of provision of contraception from general practice and family planning clinics for the populations of the 32 London Boroughs.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Retrospective analysis of routine activity data, including the estimated numbers of first attendance, for 295 family planning clinics (managed by 28 NHS Trusts) and more than 1800 GP partnerships in Greater London, supplemented by data from a survey of family planning clinics. The results were expressed as the estimated percentage of women aged 16-49 obtaining advice on contraception from GPs and family planning clinics. These results were compared to those expected based on results in the General Household Survey.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across London in 1995/96, 12% of women aged 16-49 obtained contraception services from family planning clinics, and 24% obtained contraception services from a GP. At a borough level there was variation from 11% to 25% in coverage by family planning clinics, and from 11% to 41% in coverage by GPs. Estimates of the proportion of women in this age group not using NHS-provided medical or surgical contraception ranged from 0 to 30%. Across all boroughs, there was no consistent relationship between levels of GP activity and family planning clinic activity.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The results indicate substantial variations between boroughs in the proportion of women using NHS-provided medical or surgical methods of contraception. The absence of any clear inverse relationship between activity in family planning clinics and activity in general practice suggests that changes to one will not be compensated by changes in the other. More specifically, health authorities that opt to purchase lower levels of family planning clinic activity cannot assume that women may opt to use GPs as an alternative. Such a strategy may increase the likelihood that women who would have used family planning clinic services will either not use contraception at all, or will use less effective 'over the counter' methods.</p>","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"21-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21631032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quality of information on emergency contraception on the Internet.","authors":"M Latthe, P M Latthe, R Charlton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To evaluate the quality of patient information about emergency contraception on the Internet.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>We performed an on-line search of the Internet and found relevant World Wide Web sites by combining the key phrases 'emergency contraception' and 'patient information' in two Web subject guides and two search engines. We defined quality as the extent to which the characteristics of a Web site satisfied its stated and implied objectives. Our assessment focused on credibility and content of each Web site. Credibility was assessed by source, currency and editorial review process and content of Web site was assessed by hierarchy and accuracy of evidence.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our search revealed 32 relevant Web sites, none of which complied with all of the criteria for quality of credibility and content. Twenty-eight Web sites displayed the source clearly, 17 Web sites showed currency, and none of the Web sites had an editorial review process. Only six of the 32 sites mentioned hierarchy of evidence. None of the Web sites depicted all the criteria for accuracy of contents.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>None of the Web sites provided complete information to patients about emergency contraception according to the quality criteria used in this study. As previous studies have shown, people need to be wary about the quality of information on the Internet.</p>","PeriodicalId":22378,"journal":{"name":"The British journal of family planning","volume":"26 1","pages":"39-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21631033","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}