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Asking About Pregnancy Coercion and Intimate-partner Violence can Reduce Their Incidence: Study

by Kathy Jones on August 31, 2010 at 8:05 PM Women Health News

A new pilot study led by researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine says that asking young women during visits to family planning clinics whether their partners had attempted to force them to become pregnant dramatically reduced the likelihood that the women would continue to experience such pressures.

Asking About Pregnancy Coercion and Intimate-partner Violence can Reduce Their Incidence: Study

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Young women who recently experienced partner violence had a 70 percent reduction in the odds that they would continue to experience pregnancy coercion following the questioning, which is called a brief intervention, the study found. The study participants also were 60 percent more likely to report ending a relationship with a partner because they felt unsafe or the relationship felt unhealthy.

"This pilot study was focused on how we might better identify intimate-partner violence and reproductive coercion in clinical settings and offer women specific strategies to reduce their risk of an unwanted pregnancy and increase their safety," said Elizabeth Miller, associate professor of pediatrics at the UC Davis School of Medicine and the study's lead author. "These findings are extremely encouraging, and suggest that such clinical interventions may be useful in reducing both partner violence and unintended pregnancy."

Published online in the journal Contraception the study, "A Family Planning Clinic Partner Violence Intervention to Reduce Risk Associated with Reproductive Coercion," assessed the effectiveness of what the authors said is the first step toward a harm-reduction health-care protocol for reducing women's risk of becoming pregnant by abusive partners, a widespread public-health problem.

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