(1) Differences in incidence of unplanned pregnancies among women was more a result of socioeconomic circumstance and the tendency to have a large family than attitude towards children.
(2) Seventy-five children, aged 8 to 12, who experienced unplanned hospitalizations were studied.
(3) In September-December 1988 in Australia, at least 1490 couples in metropolitan Perth completed a questionnaire on contraceptive use and unplanned pregnancy.
(4) For example, many recent pregnancies were reported to be unplanned.
(5) All of which point to an urgent need for a multidisciplinary and holistic approach to age-related sex education for adolescents of both sexes and their parents; socio-economic problems facing the family; ways of preventing school drop out and further unplanned and unwanted pregnancies among teenagers.
(6) national program strategies must be devoted to reducing the level of unmet need for the following women: 1) nonusers who are at risk of an unplanned pregnancy and need contraception; 2) users who need better contraceptive methods; 3) nonusers and users who need a safe, accessible method of pregnancy termination; and 4) nonusers and users who need more comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services.
(7) Despite dissemination of modern contraceptive techniques among college women, unplanned pregnancy and pregnancy termination rates remain a major health issue.
(8) The paper describes a programme of research directed toward developing and testing a nursing intervention derived from the Roy Adaptation Model of Nursing and designed to prepare expectant parents for unplanned Caesarean birth.
(9) The clogged sewage drains, road-side garbage dumps and unplanned industrial waste management pose severe health hazards.
(10) Our results indicated that review of pregnancy-related behaviors decreased perceived vulnerability among two groups of subjects: those who considered unplanned pregnancy to be most undesirable and those who had the most confidence in the efficacy of their contraceptive behavior.
(11) Broken down by age category, the unplanned pregnancy rate was: 15-19 years, 7.5; 20-24 years, 6.5; 25-29 years, 5.4; 30-34 years, 3.5; and 35-44 years, 2.0.
(12) The immediate and long-range consequences of unplanned teenage pregnancies are many.
(13) After 1 year most of the PKU subjects were not planning a pregnancy, making their main behavioral goal the prevention of an unplanned pregnancy.
(14) On balance, the intrauterine device proved much more effective than oral contraceptives in preventing unplanned pregnancies, reflecting the higher continuation rates of IUD acceptors.
(15) The use-effectiveness of natural methods of family planning in lactation is evaluated by comparing the incidence of unplanned pregnancies in a group of nursing mothers practising these methods with the incidences reported previously in surveys of breastfeeding women using no contraception.
(16) A random sample of 133 elderly patients who had an unplanned readmission to a district general hospital within 28 days of discharge from hospital was studied and compared with a matched control sample of patients who were not readmitted.
(17) No significant differences in rates for other operative and postoperative complications were identified, including wound dehiscence, unplanned postoperative filtering blebs, infectious endophthalmitis, retinal detachment, persistent iridocyclitis, glaucoma, and corneal edema.
(18) Method failure was the reported cause of pregnancy in only 2 of the 83 unplanned pregnancies.
(19) The most often stated reason for requesting abortion was lack of contraception, usually during an unplanned unprotected intercourse.
(20) Findings in the survey indicated that 22% of all women and 33% of married women are at risk of having an unplanned pregnancy.
Unwitting
Definition:
(a.) Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant.
Example Sentences:
(1) We’re going to splice this together with a tweet from Tory MP David Gauke this week in which he unwittingly revealed that the Star Wars set at Pinewood Studios features a brand new Death Star .
(2) His marker, it emerged, had been the subject of an unwitting bodycheck by his captain.
(3) The repurposing of the devices of unwitting users in foreign jurisdictions for covert attacks in the interests of one country’s national priorities is a dangerous precedent – contrary to international norms, and in violation of widespread domestic laws prohibiting the unauthorised use of computing and networked systems,” they conclude.
(4) My elder daughter unwittingly taught me, the first time I took her to one.
(5) She added: "Last year's revelations show that unencrypted communications can mean that journalists may be unwittingly handing over their contacts, footage or material, against their will."
(6) In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including Satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument outside the statehouse.
(7) It is the unwitting result of our use of fossil fuels.
(8) Bogdanor guessed that Green may have been arrested because he had 'unwittingly' disclosed sensitive security information.
(9) The foreign secretary, David Miliband, whose family roots are of Polish Jewish origin, has led the attacks on Cameron and his allies, perhaps unwittingly thrusting the debate over the second world war in eastern Europe into the early stages of a British election campaign.
(10) Failure to recognize a child's fabrication can subject the family to unnecessary legal action and unwittingly support the use of a similar manipulative technique by other susceptible children.
(11) In explaining both the nature of the material shut away and the causes of its being so, attention is called to the role that a child's parents play, wittingly or unwittingly.
(12) Dual prescribing or additional use of nonprescription salicylates are some causes of unwitting long term toxicity.
(13) He added: "It is now clear that the BBC failed the students, who were unwitting human fodder used to fulfil John Sweeney and his wife's personal ambition to film inside North Korea.
(14) But coyote is also used to denote a middleman, particularly one who takes advantage of unwitting farmers.
(15) All too unwittingly but effectively and increasingly, developed world citizens contribute to the rundown of the planet's natural resources that sustain everyone's welfare.
(16) England’s captain has worn the armband with distinction in many ways here in Brazil, but he played an unwitting part in both goals and it would be no way to end his international career.
(17) In the words of Samuel D. Gross: "The cases which may reasonably require and those which may not require interference with the knife are not always so clearly and distinctly defined as not to give rise, in very many instances, to the most serious apprehension ... that, while the surgeon endeavors to avoid Scylla, he may not unwittingly run into Charybdis, mutilating a limb that might have been saved, and endangering life by the retention of one that should have been promptly amputated."
(18) An Australian couple were unwittingly conned into becoming multi-million dollar drug mules after winning a dream trip to Canada with new luggage thrown in.
(19) But everything about such attacks is murky; finding the perpetrators is difficult if not impossible, as the architecture of the internet allows for hackers to mask their attack through unwitting users and anonymisation software.
(20) The unwitting vaginal and vulvar use of 5-FU in pregnancy did not result in significant morbidity or mortality; expectant management of such pregnancies should be considered.