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Young women described the benefits of having advance supplies of emergency contraception but emphasised its use as a “last resort” rather than an alternative form of contraception

https://doi.org/10.1136/ebn.9.1.29

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    Ziebland S, Wyke S, Seaman P, et al. What happened when Scottish women were given advance supplies of emergency contraception? A survey and qualitative study of women’s views and experiences. Soc Sci Med 2005;60:1767–79.OpenUrlCrossRefPubMedWeb of Science

    Q What are the views and experiences of young women who have kept advance supplies of emergency contraception (EC) at home?

    DESIGN

    A postal survey and qualitative interviews, which were part of the Lothian Emergency Contraception Project (LECP). Only the methods and results of the qualitative interviews are reported here.

    SETTING

    10 general practices in Lothian, UK.

    PARTICIPANTS

    22 women (16–29 y) who had received advance supplies of EC (5 courses of Schering PC4) to keep at home in the context of the LECP.

    METHODS

    Women participated in semistructured individual interviews that lasted 45–90 minutes and addressed circumstances of EC use, previous experience with EC, and views about advance supplies and deregulation of EC. Interviews were audiotaped and transcribed. Analysis used constant comparison techniques and attended to both the structure and content of the women’s talk. 2 researchers regularly discussed coding, tested the analysis in different sections of the data, and explored deviant cases.

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    Footnotes

    • For correspondence: MsS Ziebland, Department of Primary Health Care, University of Oxford, Headington, UK. sue.ziebland{at}dphpc.ox.ac.uk

    • Source of funding: Wellcome Trust.