In all three states, people who had skilled monetary instability resulting from being out of labor, having fallen behind on key funds, or due to a job discount or loss resulting from COVID-19 had elevated odds of experiencing delays in sexual and reproductive well being care.
“Importantly, our findings spotlight solely a small piece of the bigger image of how people’ reproductive autonomy was impeded because of the pandemic,” concluded the investigators. “Additional analysis relating to the extent to which these COVID-19-related delays resulted in subsequent damaging penalties for peoplecomparable to having to depend on much less most well-liked strategies of contraception, forego contraception all collectively, and/or expertise undesirable pregnanciesis warranted.”
“Though the researchers demonstrated COVID-19-related delays in entry to sexual and reproductive well being care, linked to monetary instability, the findings revealed no affiliation between medical insurance protection and COVID-19-related entry delays,” says Journal of Girls’s Well being Editor-in-Chief Susan G. Kornstein, MD, Government Director of the Virginia Commonwealth College Institute for Girls’s Well being, Richmond, VA.
Supply: Eurekalert
