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Males’ Ability to Report Their Partner’s Contraceptive Use at Last Sex in a Nationally Representative Sample: Implications for Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Evaluations

Addressing and enabling the role of males in contraceptive choices may facilitate efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy rates and disparities in the United States, but little is known about males’ ability to report their partners’ contraceptive use. Data from the 2011-2013 National Survey of Family...

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Autores principales: Garbers, Samantha, Scheinmann, Roberta, Gold, Melanie A., Catallozzi, Marina, House, Lawrence, Koumans, Emilia H., Bell, David L.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5675240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27923969
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988316681667
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author Garbers, Samantha
Scheinmann, Roberta
Gold, Melanie A.
Catallozzi, Marina
House, Lawrence
Koumans, Emilia H.
Bell, David L.
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Scheinmann, Roberta
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Koumans, Emilia H.
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description Addressing and enabling the role of males in contraceptive choices may facilitate efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy rates and disparities in the United States, but little is known about males’ ability to report their partners’ contraceptive use. Data from the 2011-2013 National Survey of Family Growth from 2,238 males aged 15 to 44 years who had vaginal sex with a noncohabiting or nonmarital partner and were not seeking pregnancy were examined to tabulate the proportion of males able to report whether their partner used a specific contraceptive method use at last sex (PCM) by sociodemographic and sexual history characteristics. Logistic regression was used to assess odds of being unable to report PCM, adjusting for age and sexual history factors. Most (95.0%) were able to report PCM, with no difference by age group (chi-square = 7.27, p = .281) in unadjusted analyses. Males with a new sex partner (14.8% of the sample), compared with those with an established sex partner, had significantly higher odds of being unable to report PCM in bivariate (11.7% vs. 3.7%, chi-square = 39.39, p < .001) and multivariable (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 3.17, 95% confidence interval [CI: 1.74, 5.65]) analyses. Those whose last sexual encounter was more than 3 months ago also had higher odds of being unable to report in bivariate (OR: 1.74, 95% CI [1.05, 2.87]) and multivariable analyses (AOR: 2.04, 95% CI [1.04, 4.03]). Most men were able report PCM, but reporting was significantly lower among men with new sex partners. To inform future research and evaluation relying on male report, validation studies comparing male report with partner report, specifically among new couples, are needed.
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spelling pubmed-56752402017-12-12 Males’ Ability to Report Their Partner’s Contraceptive Use at Last Sex in a Nationally Representative Sample: Implications for Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Evaluations Garbers, Samantha Scheinmann, Roberta Gold, Melanie A. Catallozzi, Marina House, Lawrence Koumans, Emilia H. Bell, David L. Am J Mens Health Articles Addressing and enabling the role of males in contraceptive choices may facilitate efforts to reduce unintended pregnancy rates and disparities in the United States, but little is known about males’ ability to report their partners’ contraceptive use. Data from the 2011-2013 National Survey of Family Growth from 2,238 males aged 15 to 44 years who had vaginal sex with a noncohabiting or nonmarital partner and were not seeking pregnancy were examined to tabulate the proportion of males able to report whether their partner used a specific contraceptive method use at last sex (PCM) by sociodemographic and sexual history characteristics. Logistic regression was used to assess odds of being unable to report PCM, adjusting for age and sexual history factors. Most (95.0%) were able to report PCM, with no difference by age group (chi-square = 7.27, p = .281) in unadjusted analyses. Males with a new sex partner (14.8% of the sample), compared with those with an established sex partner, had significantly higher odds of being unable to report PCM in bivariate (11.7% vs. 3.7%, chi-square = 39.39, p < .001) and multivariable (adjusted odds ratio [AOR]: 3.17, 95% confidence interval [CI: 1.74, 5.65]) analyses. Those whose last sexual encounter was more than 3 months ago also had higher odds of being unable to report in bivariate (OR: 1.74, 95% CI [1.05, 2.87]) and multivariable analyses (AOR: 2.04, 95% CI [1.04, 4.03]). Most men were able report PCM, but reporting was significantly lower among men with new sex partners. To inform future research and evaluation relying on male report, validation studies comparing male report with partner report, specifically among new couples, are needed. SAGE Publications 2016-12-05 2017-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5675240/ /pubmed/27923969 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988316681667 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Males’ Ability to Report Their Partner’s Contraceptive Use at Last Sex in a Nationally Representative Sample: Implications for Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Evaluations
title Males’ Ability to Report Their Partner’s Contraceptive Use at Last Sex in a Nationally Representative Sample: Implications for Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Evaluations
title_full Males’ Ability to Report Their Partner’s Contraceptive Use at Last Sex in a Nationally Representative Sample: Implications for Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Evaluations
title_fullStr Males’ Ability to Report Their Partner’s Contraceptive Use at Last Sex in a Nationally Representative Sample: Implications for Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Evaluations
title_full_unstemmed Males’ Ability to Report Their Partner’s Contraceptive Use at Last Sex in a Nationally Representative Sample: Implications for Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Evaluations
title_short Males’ Ability to Report Their Partner’s Contraceptive Use at Last Sex in a Nationally Representative Sample: Implications for Unintended Pregnancy Prevention Evaluations
title_sort males’ ability to report their partner’s contraceptive use at last sex in a nationally representative sample: implications for unintended pregnancy prevention evaluations
topic Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5675240/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27923969
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1557988316681667
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