Discrepancies seen between younger individuals’s most well-liked, precise sources of contraceptive information

There are discrepancies between most well-liked and precise sources of contraceptive info for U.S. adolescents and younger adults (AYA), based on a analysis letter revealed on-line Sept. 13 in JAMA Community Open.

Elizabeth Pleasants, Dr.P.H., from the College of California, Berkeley, and colleagues examined AYAs’ most well-liked and precise sources of contraceptive info and assessed associations with reporting enough contraceptive info. The evaluation included knowledge from the net 2023 Thanks, Delivery Management Survey (1,150 AYAs aged 15 to 29 years).

The researchers discovered discrepancies between AYAs’ most well-liked and precise sources of contraceptive info and variations by age. Clinicians have been essentially the most generally most well-liked supply (68% amongst these youthful than 18 years, 84% amongst 18- to 24-year-olds, and 87% amongst 25- to 29-year-olds). Nevertheless, clinicians have been much less generally the precise sources (33% amongst these youthful than 18 years, 43% amongst 18- to 24-year-olds, and 50% amongst 25- to 29-year-olds).

Web sites have been reported extra usually as a most well-liked quite than precise supply amongst older contributors (36 versus 18% amongst 18- to 24-year-olds and 38 versus 17% amongst 25- to 29-year-olds). Social networking websites have been much less generally most well-liked (6% amongst these youthful than 18 years, 12% amongst 18- to 24-year-olds, and 10% amongst 25- to 29-year-olds), however have been the second most typical precise supply for respondents ages 18 years and older (28% amongst 18- to 24-year-olds and 18% amongst 25- to 29-year-olds).

“Clinician engagement in on-line well being schooling could also be one technique to assist AYAs entry most well-liked contraceptive info,” the authors write.

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