The Effects Of Self-Administering Emergency Contraception

• Book ID: 104271671
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Weight: 42 KB
• Volume: 44
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0091-2182
• DOI: 10.1016/s0091-2182(98)00081-0

✦ Synopsis

the 1,692 study participants. Overall, 532 (33%) reported douching at some time during the preceding 12 months. Women who reported douching in the 12 months before their clinic visit had an increased likelihood of chlamydia infection compared with women who did not douche (prevalence odds ratio [OR] 2.29). The likelihood was higher for women who reported douching more often: OR 2.6 for women who douched one to three times per month, and OR 3.84 if douching four times or more per month. Women with chlamydia infection were more likely to be younger than 25 years of age, unmarried, nulligravid, of black ethnicity, to have lower incomes, to have had two or more sexual partners in the preceding year, and to have cervical ectopy. The likelihood of chlamydia infection did not vary greatly by type of product used (commercial versus noncommercial), and women who reported douching after menses were only slightly more likely to have infection than women who douched for other reasons. Of the 76 (14.3%) of participants who reported douching to alleviate symptoms of infection, none was chlamydia culture positive.