title: Body image of and contraceptive use by college females.
abstract: 83 sexually active college females completed a body-image scale and were classified on the basis of type of contraceptive used and consistency of contraceptive use. Stepwise discriminant analysis identified sets of body-image items which significantly discriminated among the three groups of contraceptive types and four groups of contraceptive consistency.
mesh_terms: D001828:Body Image; D003268:Contraception Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012725:Sexual Behavior