Emergency Contraception - User's Profile

University Hospital Basel

Status: Completed

Conditions: Postcoital Contraception

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01771016

EKBB 114/07

Details and patient eligibility

About

Retrospective analysis of requests of emergency hormonal contraception using pharmacy protocols registered in 2003 and 2006.

Full description

In 2002, Levonorgestrel was introduced in Switzerland for emergency hormonal contraception (EC) without prescription ('pharmacist only'). In 2003, a first analysis of requests of EC showed that the dispensing of EC through pharmacies could successfully be implemented (Lemke et al 2004).

This study was repeated three years later with the aim to explore whether the user's profile has changed after introduction of a low threshold access to EC.

Enrollment: 729 patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• women seaking emergency hormonal contraception

Exclusion criteria