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Risk Factors for Contraceptive Failure and Unintended Pregnancy Among Women With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Lay Summary Among pregnant women with IBD, risk factors for unplanned pregnancy from contraceptive failure included low socioeconomic status, low education level, no domestic partner, and racial/ethnic minority status. Active disease and corticosteroid use were not uncommon among those with unplanned pregnancy.

Source: Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

DOI: 10.1093/ibd/izaf046

Authors: Erica J Brenner, Xian Zhang, Uma Mahadevan, Amy G Bryant, Michael D Kappelman, Millie D Long

Institutions: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of California, San Francisco

Language: English

Topic: Reproductive Health and Contraception

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases