Ushma D Upadhyay, Rosalyn Schroeder, Shelly Kaller, Clara Stewart, Nancy F Berglas
{"title":"Pricing of medication abortion in the United States, 2021-2023.","authors":"Ushma D Upadhyay, Rosalyn Schroeder, Shelly Kaller, Clara Stewart, Nancy F Berglas","doi":"10.1111/psrh.12280","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psrh.12280","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Financial costs remain one of the greatest barriers to abortion, leading to delays in care and preventing some from getting a desired abortion. Medication abortion is available through in-person facilities and telehealth services. However, whether telehealth offers a more affordable option has not been well-documented.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH)'s Abortion Facility Database, which includes data on all publicly advertising abortion facilities and is updated annually. We describe facility out-of-pocket prices for medication abortion in 2021, 2022, and 2023, comparing in-person and telehealth provided by brick-and-mortar and virtual clinics, and by whether states allowed Medicaid coverage for abortion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The national median price for medication abortion remained consistent at $568 in 2021 and $563 in 2023. However, medications provided by virtual clinics were notably lower in price than in-person care and this difference widened over time. The median cost of a medication abortion offered in-person increased from $580 in 2021 to $600 by 2023, while the median price of a medication abortion offered by virtual clinics decreased from $239 in 2021 to $150 in 2023. Among virtual clinics, few (7%) accepted Medicaid. Median prices in states that accept Medicaid were generally higher than in states that did not.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Medication abortion is offered at substantially lower prices by virtual clinics. However, not being able to use Medicaid or other insurance may make telehealth cost-prohibitive for some people, even if prices are lower. Additionally, many states do not allow telehealth for abortion, deepening inequities in healthcare.</p>","PeriodicalId":47632,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141493868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mikaela H. Smith, Melissa B. Eggen, Ann Alexis Prestrud, Kathryn Lafferty‐Danner, Hillary Gyuras, Danielle Bessett, Lizz Perkins
{"title":"Seeking financial and practical support in an abortion‐hostile state: Analysis of abortion fund data in Kentucky, 2014–2021","authors":"Mikaela H. Smith, Melissa B. Eggen, Ann Alexis Prestrud, Kathryn Lafferty‐Danner, Hillary Gyuras, Danielle Bessett, Lizz Perkins","doi":"10.1111/psrh.12279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psrh.12279","url":null,"abstract":"ObjectivesPhilanthropic abortion funds are integral to accessing care in the United States, providing both financial and practical assistance. Yet relatively little is known about those who seek these essential services. In this study, we analyzed data from a Kentucky abortion fund to assess characteristics of abortion fund callers.MethodsWe analyzed 2014–2021 administrative data from the Kentucky Health Justice Network's (KHJN) Abortion Support Fund and compared them to abortion data from the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH). We analyzed age, race, and pregnancy gestation at calling (KHJN) and abortion (KDPH), and calculated <jats:italic>Z</jats:italic>‐scores and <jats:italic>p</jats:italic>‐values to compare proportions in each category between the two data sources.ResultsThe fund supported 6162 people from 2014 to 2021, when 28,741 people had abortions in Kentucky. Compared with KDPH data, KHJN had a higher percentage of callers who were under age 30, a higher percentage of callers who were Black or another race, and a higher percentage of callers at 14 weeks' gestation or higher.ConclusionsCompared with state data, KHJN supported a higher percentage of young people, people of color, and people at later gestations. These findings support evidence that structurally vulnerable groups are more likely to face barriers to care and that abortion funds provide essential support necessary for reproductive equity.","PeriodicalId":47632,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141505936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"It definitely changed me\": Exploring sexual and gender diverse people's experiences with intimate partner violence in Ontario, Canada.","authors":"Kyle J Drouillard, Angel M Foster","doi":"10.1111/psrh.12276","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psrh.12276","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Intimate partner violence (IPV) involves an individual committing acts intended to harm or intimidate a current or former romantic partner. The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent stay-at-home orders often trapped victims with perpetrators and intensified IPV. Although sexual and gender diverse people disproportionately experience IPV compared to cisgender, heterosexual people, their experiences are not well documented in the Canadian context. This study aimed to explore the experiences of Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and other sexual and gender diverse (2S/LGBTQIA+) people with IPV in Ontario and how the COVID-19 pandemic affected their IPV experiences.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted in-depth, semi-structured interviews with self-identified 2S/LGBTQIA+ people who experienced IPV on/after March 15, 2020. We audio-recorded and transcribed all interviews and coded the transcripts for content and themes using inductive and deductive techniques.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our 20 participants experienced physical, psychological, sexual, and financial abuse. Technology-facilitated violence extended abuse geographically and temporally. IPV experiences were associated with negative mental health outcomes that were intensified by the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants struggled to see themselves as legitimate victims of IPV. Although participants regretted being victims of violence, many saw their abusive relationship(s) as a learning experience to inform future relationships.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>Our findings suggest that 2S/LGBTQIA+ people may experience unique forms of identity abuse and may have difficulty recognizing their IPV experiences as abuse. Ensuring that comprehensive sexual health education is trauma-informed, anti-oppressive, and includes information about healthy relationship dynamics, 2S/LGBTQIA+ relationships, and IPV is critical.</p>","PeriodicalId":47632,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141263080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leah Mc Laughlin, Jane Noyes, Barbara Neukirchinger, Denitza Williams, Rhiannon Phillips, Sian Griffin
{"title":"\"It was classed as a nonemergency\": Women's experiences of kidney disease and preconception decision-making, family planning, and parenting in the United Kingdom during COVID-19.","authors":"Leah Mc Laughlin, Jane Noyes, Barbara Neukirchinger, Denitza Williams, Rhiannon Phillips, Sian Griffin","doi":"10.1111/psrh.12256","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psrh.12256","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To investigate the experiences of women with kidney disease, residing in the United Kingdom (UK), living through the first 18 months of the COVID-19 pandemic with specific focus on preconception decision-making, family planning, and parenting.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted a mixed-methods study, comprising an online survey and follow-up interviews, with UK-resident women aged 18-50.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We received 431 surveys and conducted 30 interviews. Half (n = 221, 51%) of the survey respondents considered that COVID-19 influenced the quality of communication with healthcare professionals and 68% (n = 295) felt that the pandemic disrupted their support networks. Interview participants indicated that delayed and canceled appointments caused anxiety, grief, and loss of pregnancy options. Women's perception of themselves as (good) mothers as well as their capacity to have and raise a child, meet partners, and sustain healthy relationships was negatively affected by the \"clinically extremely vulnerable\" label. Women's trust in their healthcare was dismantled by miscommunication and variation in lockdown rules that caused confusion and increased worry. Women reported that COVID-19 contributed to postnatal depression, excessive concern over infant mortality, preoccupation over others following rules, and catastrophising.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Some women in the UK with chronic kidney disease lost or missed their opportunity to have children during the pandemic. Future pandemic planners need to look more holistically and longer term at what is and is not classed as an emergency, both in how services are reconfigured and how people with chronic conditions are identified, communicated with, and treated.</p>","PeriodicalId":47632,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140132894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alice F Cartwright, Maeve Wallace, Jessica Su, Siân Curtis, Gustavo Angeles, Ilene S Speizer
{"title":"Neighborhood-level racialized socioeconomic deprivation and contraceptive use in the United States, 2011-2019.","authors":"Alice F Cartwright, Maeve Wallace, Jessica Su, Siân Curtis, Gustavo Angeles, Ilene S Speizer","doi":"10.1111/psrh.12269","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psrh.12269","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>The social and structural environments where people live are understudied in contraceptive research. We assessed if neighborhood measures of racialized socioeconomic deprivation are associated with contraceptive use in the United States.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used restricted geographic data from four waves of the National Survey of Family Growth (2011-2019) limited to non-pregnant women ages 15-44 who had sex in the last 12 months. We characterized respondent neighborhoods (census tracts) with the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE), a measure of spatial social polarization, into areas of concentrated privilege (predominantly white residents living on high incomes) and deprivation (predominantly people of color living on low incomes). We used multivariable binary and multinomial logistic regression with year fixed effects to estimate adjusted associations between ICE tertile and contraceptive use and method type. We also assessed for an interactive effect of ICE and health insurance type.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the 14,396 respondents, 88.4% in neighborhoods of concentrated deprivation used any contraception, compared to 92.7% in the most privileged neighborhoods. In adjusted models, the predicted probability of using any contraception in neighborhoods of concentrated deprivation was 2.8 percentage points lower than in neighborhoods of concentrated privilege, 5.0 percentage points higher for barrier/coital dependent methods, and 4.3 percentage points lower for short-acting methods. Those with Medicaid were less likely to use any contraception than those with private insurance irrespective of neighborhood classification.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>This study highlights the salience of structural factors for contraceptive use and the need for continued examination of structural oppressions to inform health policy.</p>","PeriodicalId":47632,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11260244/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141297029","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Joline S Hartheimer, Bianca A Allison, Martha F Perry
{"title":"Increasing access to LARC removal in pediatrics to support adolescent reproductive justice in the United States.","authors":"Joline S Hartheimer, Bianca A Allison, Martha F Perry","doi":"10.1111/psrh.12270","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psrh.12270","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>In the United States (U.S.), adolescents and young adults are increasingly using contraception, including long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) [e.g., subdermal implants (e.g., Nexplanon®) and intrauterine devices (IUDs)]; however, access to LARC device removal may be difficult for adolescents and young adults. Reproductive justice is the right to bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and safely parent the children we have.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In this commentary, we discuss that while the specialties of family medicine and obstetrics and gynecology have incorporated the principles of reproductive justice into their contraceptive care, further work is needed to ingrain this philosophy into pediatrics training. Since LARC devices are historically only removable by health care providers, pediatricians may act as gatekeepers to removing LARC, obstructing the reproductive justice of adolescents and young adults.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>We describe that adolescents and young adults in the U.S. face unique barriers to LARC removal including limited access to the health care system, potential breaches in confidentiality, and provider bias. These barriers may lead adolescents and young adults to remove their own LARC device when experiencing unwanted side effects or desiring pregnancy. While IUD self-removal is a safe and accessible option, safety and efficacy data on subdermal implant self-removal is currently limited.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>In order to promote reproductive justice in adolescents and young adults, we recommend that (1) pediatricians should address potential barriers to LARC removal prior to insertion, (2) pediatricians must offer unbiased LARC removal, (3) pediatricians who place LARC must be knowledgeable about complicated LARC removal, and (4) pediatricians should discuss LARC self-removal options with adolescents and young adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":47632,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141263083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abigail L Underwood, Kathryn A Hyzak, Ashley Ebersole, Alicia C Bunger, Elise D Berlan
{"title":"Assessing perspectives on an intervention connecting adolescents in outpatient psychiatry care to contraceptive counseling in the United States.","authors":"Abigail L Underwood, Kathryn A Hyzak, Ashley Ebersole, Alicia C Bunger, Elise D Berlan","doi":"10.1111/psrh.12261","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psrh.12261","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adolescents with psychiatric disorders have high rates of unintended pregnancy and experience barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) care. Outpatient psychiatry visits are potential opportunities to connect adolescents to SRH care. This study informs the development of the Link2BC intervention which links adolescents in outpatient psychiatry care to SRH care.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We conducted group interviews with adolescents (3 groups, 7 total participants) and caregivers (3 groups, 9 total participants) and individual interviews with 8 psychiatry providers who received or provided outpatient psychiatric treatment in clinics in a pediatric hospital in a city in the Midwestern United States. We asked questions about the acceptability of Link2BC, potential implementation needs, and implementation determinants. Using consensus-building techniques, two coders analyzed transcriptions using a codebook informed by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research 2.0.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Participants agreed on the need for interventions that expand access to SRH care. Adolescents emphasized that services should be confidential and accessible and were open to their psychiatrists introducing SRH topics during appointments. Providers expressed preference for training and clear workflows. Participants agreed that psychiatry providers could serve as liaisons between adolescents and their caregivers to facilitate conversations about contraception. Participants had concerns about time constraints during visits but mentioned few other barriers to the intervention.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study demonstrates the acceptability of connecting adolescents in outpatient psychiatry care to contraceptive counseling and informs the refinement and implementation of Link2BC. Integrating contraception counseling in outpatient psychiatry settings is an innovative approach to prevent unintended pregnancy among adolescents by increasing access to SRH care services.</p>","PeriodicalId":47632,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140307395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Aaron Brant, Patrick Lewicki, Alec Zhu, Stephen Rhodes, Camilo Arenas-Gallo, Jonathan E Shoag, Peter N Schlegel, Joshua Halpern
{"title":"High variability in self-pay pricing for vasectomy and vasectomy reversal in the United States.","authors":"Aaron Brant, Patrick Lewicki, Alec Zhu, Stephen Rhodes, Camilo Arenas-Gallo, Jonathan E Shoag, Peter N Schlegel, Joshua Halpern","doi":"10.1111/psrh.12266","DOIUrl":"10.1111/psrh.12266","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Context: </strong>In the United States (US) men who undergo vasectomy and/or vasectomy reversal (vasovasotomy) are likely to pay out-of-pocket for these procedures. We characterized the publicly disclosed pricing of both procedures with a focus on variability in self-pay prices.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We queried all US hospitals for publicly disclosed prices of vasectomy and vasovasotomy. We assessed interhospital variability in self-pay pricing and compared hospitals charging high (≥75th percentile) and low (≤25th percentile) self-pay prices for either procedure. We also examined trends in pricing after the 2022 US Supreme Court decision that allowed individual states to ban abortion.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 6692 hospitals, 1375 (20.5%) and 281 (4.2%) disclosed self-pay prices for vasectomy and vasovasotomy, respectively. There was a 17-fold difference between the 10th and 90th percentile self-pay prices for vasectomy ($421-$7147) and a 39-fold difference for vasovasotomy ($446-$17,249). Compared with hospitals charging low (≤25th percentile) self-pay prices for vasectomy or vasovasotomy, hospitals charging high (≥75th percentile) prices were larger (median 150 vs. 59 beds, p < 0.001) and more likely to be for-profit (31.2% vs. 7.8%, p < 0.001), academic-affiliated (52.7% vs. 23.1%, p < 0.001), and located in an urban zip code (70.1% vs. 41.3%, p < 0.001). From October 2022 to April 2023, the median self-pay price of vasectomy increased by 10% (from $1667 to $1832) while the median self-pay price of vasovasotomy decreased by 16% (from $3309 to $2786).</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>We found large variability in self-pay pricing for vasectomy and vasectomy reversal, which may serve as a barrier to the accessibility of male reproductive care.</p>","PeriodicalId":47632,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141088879","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Brief of Amici Curiae economists in support of respondents in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.","authors":"Caitlin Myers, Anjali Srinivasan","doi":"10.1111/psrh.12268","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psrh.12268","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A pillar of Mississippi's argument in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health was that there is no evidence of \"societal reliance\" on abortion, meaning no reason to believe that access to abortion impacts the ability of women to participate in the economic and social life of the nation. Led by economist Caitlin Myers and attorney Anjali Srinivasan, more than 150 economists filed an amicus brief seeking to assist the Court in understanding that this assertion is erroneous. The economists describe developments in causal inference methodologies over the last three decades, and the ways in which these tools have been used to isolate the measure of the effects of abortion legalization in the 1970s and of abortion policies and access over the ensuing decades. The economists argue that there is a substantial body of well-developed and credible research that shows that abortion access has had and continues to have a significant effect on birth rates as well as broad downstream social and economic effects, including on women's educational attainment and job opportunities. What follows is a reprint of this brief.</p>","PeriodicalId":47632,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140923182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nicola Döring, M. Rohangis Mohseni, Laura Pietras, Arne Dekker, Peer Briken
{"title":"Research in brief: How prevalent is rough sex? Results from a national online sample of adults in Germany","authors":"Nicola Döring, M. Rohangis Mohseni, Laura Pietras, Arne Dekker, Peer Briken","doi":"10.1111/psrh.12267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/psrh.12267","url":null,"abstract":"BackgroundRough sex refers to consensual sexual activities that incorporate playful aggression, such as hair pulling, spanking, or choking. It is relevant in the context of sexual health as it can enhance sexual arousal, pleasure, and intimacy among consenting partners. However, it can also be associated with consent violations, discomfort, and injuries ranging from mild to severe or even fatal. The prevalence of rough sex in Germany is widely unknown. Our study aims to establish, for the first time, the overall age‐related and gender‐related prevalence rates of active and passive rough sex involvement among adults in Germany.MethodsA national online sample of 1101 adults from Germany, aged 18–69 years (50% men, 49% women, 1% gender‐diverse individuals) gave informed consent and reported on their lifetime engagement in rough sex in active and passive roles. We recruited participants through a professional panel provider for a multi‐themed sexual health survey. Data analysis was conducted using R, with 95% confidence intervals of prevalence rates computed to answer the research questions.ResultsLifetime prevalence of rough sex involvement was 29%. Adults below the age of 40 reported higher rates of involvement (up to 43%) than people over 40 (up to 26%). Men reported predominantly active role involvement and women reported primarily passive role involvement.DiscussionResults show that rough sex is common. Sexual health professionals, educators, and researchers should be prepared to guide current and aspiring practitioners of rough sex, helping them understand potential benefits, risks, and age‐ and gender‐related differences.","PeriodicalId":47632,"journal":{"name":"Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":5.8,"publicationDate":"2024-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140826651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}