Key clinical point: Women in rural areas were less likely to receive counseling about emergency contraception than urban women, but counseling rates were low for both groups (2% and 3%, respectively).
Major finding : Between 2006 and 2017, 10% of rural women and 19% of urban women who had ever had sex reported ever using emergency contraception pills, and ever-use of emergency contraception pills more than doubled in both groups between 2006-2008 and 2015-2017.
Study details: The data come from 28,448 teens and women aged 15-44 years who participated in the National Survey of Family Growth between 2006 and 2017.
Disclosures: The study received no outside funding; one coauthor was supported by the Maine Economic Improvement Fund. The other researchers had no financial conflicts to disclose.
Source: Milkowski CM et al. Contracep X. 2021 Feb 8. doi: 10.1016/j.conx.2021.100061.