title: Contraceptive care of adolescents: overview, tips, strategies, and implications for school nurses.
abstract: The United States has one of the highest unintended pregnancy rates of all industrialized nations in the world, with 13% of those occurring among the adolescent population. In 2005, the adolescent birthrate in the United States was 40.5 per 1,000 women and increased 3% in 2006 (Martin et al., 2009). Unintended pregnancy and motherhood can have a tremendous impact and lifelong implications for adolescents and their children as well as financial and societal costs. Helping make contraception accessible to adolescents is one area where school nurses are able to have an impact. Various contraceptive methods are described. Advantages and disadvantages are summarized along with considerations relative to adolescents. General strategies for counseling and caring for adolescents to encourage successful initiation, use, and continuation of contraception also reviewed.
authors.affiliation: University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth Mary
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Gabzdyl
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D017280:Condoms / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003268:Contraception Behavior / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003270:Contraceptive Agents; D003274:Contraceptive Devices, Female / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003276:Contraceptives, Oral; D003281:Contraceptives, Postcoital / Q000627:therapeutic use; D037001:Directive Counseling; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012572:School Health Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012573:School Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013089:Spermatocidal Agents; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D003270:Contraceptive Agents; D003276:Contraceptives, Oral; D003281:Contraceptives, Postcoital; D013089:Spermatocidal Agents