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W Savage

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PubMed1994

Women's knowledge of emergency contraception.

BACKGROUND: More widespread use of emergency contraception could help to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. AIM: The objective of this study was to assess women's knowledge of emergency contraception. METHOD: A questionnaire was distributed to 1290 women aged between 16 and 50 years attending 14 general practice surgeries in London over a two-week period in 1990. RESULTS: The response rate was 70%. Over three quarters of the women had heard of emergency contraception; these were mainly women who used contraception, who had higher educational qualifications or who were not Muslim. Women who were the most likely to need and to use emergency contraception--those using barrier methods--had no more accurate knowledge than women using any other method of contraception. Only 53% of barrier method users knew emergency contraception could be used as a backup when other methods failed. Only one fifth of women had heard about this method from their general practitioner or any other health professional, while half had obtained their information from the media. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that including information on emergency contraception in consultations with users of barrier methods of contraception is a small step which general practitioners and practice nurses could take to increase the use of emergency contraception.

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PubMed1992

Plant nurseries: a reliable resource for plant identification?

Poison Centers frequently rely on the assistance of local plant nurseries to identify unknown plants involved in exposures. The reliability and accuracy of utilizing this method has never been studied; therefore, our objective was to evaluate this primary resource of plant identification. A study was done in which callers were instructed to take plant samples to a local nursery for visual identification. Once the patient was treated according to our normal protocol, the plant specimen was sent to a botanist for a second identification. The botanist provided his identification results through a blinded process. The collected data was gathered from 68 cases that completed the necessary study criteria. In 58% of the cases, plant nurseries were an unreliable source for plant identification. These incorrect identifications resulted in the "undertreatment" in 24% of the exposures.

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PubMed1990

Knowledge and use of postcoital contraception: a survey among health professionals in Tower Hamlets.

The knowledge and estimated retrospective use of postcoital contraception was ascertained from health professionals in Tower Hamlets in the summer of 1988 using a postal questionnaire. Eighty five per cent of general practitioners responded and 91% of these had received requests for postcoital contraception within the previous six months. Only one third of general practitioners had information about postcoital contraception available in their surgeries. Family planning doctors and nurses had the most accurate knowledge of the method but many health professionals appeared to lack sufficient knowledge to ensure appropriate prescribing and to publicize this method to their women patients. It is concluded that if the high rate of abortion in the borough is to be reduced, health professionals as well as women need to be further educated as part of a postcoital contraception publicity campaign. Use of the term 'emergency contraception' rather than the non-medical term 'the morning after pill' may be more effective and reduce the present confusion among both groups.

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PubMed1989

Women's knowledge and experience of cervical screening: a failure of health education and medical organization.

A survey of the knowledge of and attitudes towards cervical cytology screening in various locations in Tower Hamlets showed that 77 per cent of women in the sample reported that they had a smear test, and 86 per cent knew about them, although a small group of active elderly were unlikely to know much about the test or to have had one. Only 11 per cent of the 600 women under 65 understood that cervical cytology was to prevent cancer, whereas 71 per cent thought that it was to detect cancer. Of the 205 women who recalled their experience of the test, all had some difficulty. Two-thirds were embarrassed, and 54 per cent had pain or discomfort, which included all those women who did not feel embarrassed. Forty-three per cent had been informed of the result of their tests and about one-quarter of those took steps to get the result. Seventy-one per cent of the women had had their first test done before the age of 35, but only 9 per cent after the age of 45. A quarter of those screened had only had one test done. The women considered that more publicity about the test, the knowledge that a woman doctor would do the test, and more encouragement by health professionals would be improvements most likely to increase the uptake of screening. The possibility of a service offering immediate results should be explored by means of a pilot study.

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PubMed1988

Late abortions.

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Abortion Applicants↗
PubMed1986

Axoglial contacts in the area postrema of the cat: an ultrastructural study.

Axoglial contacts were observed in an ultrastructural study of the area postrema of the cat. According to the disposition of the electron-dense projections attached to the adjoining membranes these contacts were classified as symmetrical or asymmetrical. The axon profiles contained aggregations of clear vesicles randomly distributed or grouped in cluster adjacent to the electron-dense projections. Dense core vesicles were occasionally seen. The neuroglial profiles were either astrocytic or ependymoglial in nature. The astrocytes showed a clear cytoplasm, polymorphous vesicles, mitochondria, glycogen granules, and bundles of filaments. The ependymal cells, in contrast, had a more electron-dense and granular appearance, tubular structures, irregular vesicular formations, profiles of smooth reticuloendoplasm, and filaments grouped in bundles or isolated in the cytoplasm. The possibility that these contacts might play a role in the chemical transfer from neurons to glial cells is discussed on the basis of existing biochemical data.

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PubMed1986

Reducing delay in booking for antenatal care.

THE STUDY COMPARED TWO SCHEMES OF BOOKING FOR ANTENATAL CARE: booking at a health centre by general practitioners in conjunction with a hospital consultant or booking in a hospital clinic by hospital staff. the health centre scheme reduced the proportion of women booking late at 16 or more weeks gestation from 44% to 11% and at 20 weeks or more from 28% to 6%. There was no improvement in delay in booking owing to late confirmation of pregnancy. The benefits of this scheme were due to improved attendance and reduced delays in booking among women who confirmed pregnancy before 16 weeks gestation.

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