Abstract
Emergency Contraceptive Pill Usage: How Community Pharmacists Can Communicate with Young Female Adults?
Highlights
An unplanned pregnancy is a pregnancy that is reported to have been either unwanted or mistimed (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019)
Good communication with young adults is important for healthcare providers
Direct contact with young adults especially in the topic of emergency contraceptive pill (ECP), so community pharmacists can benefit from developing specialised communication skills
Summary
An unplanned pregnancy is a pregnancy that is reported to have been either unwanted or mistimed (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). In Malaysia, a nationwide cross-sectional study in public primary healthcare clinics showed 42.9% of the pregnancies were unplanned (Yusof, Samad, Omar, & Ahmad, 2018). This finding is alarming since family planning services are offered free of charge by all public health facilities in Malaysia, yet contraception usage rates sare still reported low. Despite its ease of availability, the contraceptive prevalence rate in Malaysia for modern methods was 32%, which is much lower in comparison to Singapore (55.1%) and Thailand (77.5%) (Najimudeen & Sachchithanantham, 2014) Multiple concurrent factors such as regularity of menstrual cycle and ovulation time make successful contraception a huge challenge (McKay & Gilbert, 2014).
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