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Characteristics Value Patients Median Number Age, years 28 (16–61) Education, years 12 (9–18) Income, $ (in thousands) 30 (8–120) Percent Married 29 Self-reported ethnicity Hispanic 48 Black 26 White 26 Clinician specialty Number Nurse practitioner 1 Physician 24 Attending 9 Resident 15 Lapse Percent Intercourse without attempting contraception At least once in past year 92 At least once in past month 42 Experienced broken condom 23 Characteristics No. Knowledgeable about emergency contraception 10 Model most used Model 1 emergency model 11 Model 2 routine counseling model 4 Model 3 medicine cabinet model 4 Routinely discuss emergency contraception with patients 5
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In an inner-city health center, physicians and women patients expressed mixed feelings about emergency contraception (also known as the "morning-after" pill). Most women patients felt that emergency contraception could help them in their lives, however they also had medical and moral concerns about its use. They were divided in their beliefs about whether physicians should provide advance prescriptions for emergency contraception. Most physicians had positive attitudes about emergency contraception, but few routinely talked with their patients about it. Some physicians and patients were concerned that providing advance prescriptions for emergency contraception would encourage women to use it repeatedly.
