Prevention of Unwanted Pregnancy.
These two studies explored the cognitive decision-making process which differentiate effective contraceptors form the ineffective contraceptors (Study 1), and applied these findings to the development and testing of educational and cognitive interventions aimed at a group of sexually active young women at risk of becoming pregnant (Study 2). The results identified factors related to unnecessary contraceptive risk-taking. The interventions changed attitudes and knowledge about contraception in the college population in general and increased effective contraception in the at-risk population of women who were initially using either ineffective methods of birth control or no methods at all.
D003267:Contraception / Q000523:psychology*; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011247:Pregnancy; D011275:Pregnancy, Unwanted; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012736:Sex Education