Exercising choice and control : women with learning disabilities and contraception
By: McCarthy, Michelle.
Series: British Journal of Learning Disabilities 38 (4) 2010: 293-302.Publisher: 2010Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume Subject(s): INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY
| WOMEN | CONTRACEPTION | SEX INFORMATION | CHOICE | INTERVIEWS | SURVEYSSummary: Used semi-structured in-depth interviews to ask women with learning disabilities about the experience of being prescribed contraception. It also asked general practitioners about their prescribing practices through a postal survey. Most of the women reported that it was other people who made the key decisions about starting to use contraception and which method to use. Many of the doctors were unclear about responding to issues of capacity to consent to treatment.
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Used semi-structured in-depth interviews to ask women with learning disabilities about the experience of being prescribed contraception. It also asked general practitioners about their prescribing practices through a postal survey. Most of the women reported that it was other people who made the key decisions about starting to use contraception and which method to use. Many of the doctors were unclear about responding to issues of capacity to consent to treatment.
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