Catrine Buck Jensen, Anita Iversen, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Bente Norbye
"Everyone who wants to can practice on me"- a qualitative study of patients' view on health profession students' learning in an interprofessional clinical placement
BMC medical education
multipurpose prevention technologies mpts developmental dualpurpose options would provide women contraceptive well prevention modality aimed sexually transmitted infections contraceptive vaginal ring cvr many properties makes ideal mpt candidate objective study understand womens attitudes towards menstrual suppression potential side effect using cvr address attitudes mpt vaginal rings development analyzed data derived subset cohort study participants n45 thika kenya january 2016 december 2018 primary study enrolled 121 women 1840 years bacterial vaginosis randomized cyclic continuous cvr use eight months 6month followup questionnaire eliciting attitudes towards menstrual suppression administered responses menstrual suppression questionnaire participants cyclic continuous cvr use groups compared likertscale responses summed create menstrual suppression attitude summary score hierarchical cluster analysis conducted identify similarities response patterns among participants totally 818 continuous cvr users believed one less likely get pregnant using hormonal medication suppress menses compared 478 cyclic cvr users p002 worried would cause longterm health effects 864 vs 609 p 005 menstrual suppression attitude summary score ranged 8 42 lower scores indicating negative attitudes summary score identified three distinct clusters asked menstrual suppression effects longterm health 100 cluster 3 worried compared 808 cluster 2 462 cluster 1 p 003 average summary score among cluster 3 mean 148 sd 46 lower p 0001 women worried discomfort sex p005 well sexual partners feeling ring p002 women likely negative attitudes believe menstrual suppression hinders future reproductive health education cycle control fertility could mitigate negative attitudes improve uptake cvrs