Christine Dehlendorf
Biographic Data
| ID | 2423456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Dehlendorf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Dehlendorf |
| SIGNATURE | DEHLENDORF C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7303-5413 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Co-design of a digital health intervention to provide pharmacy-based, person-centered contraceptive decision support for youth in Kenya
Adolescent girls and young women (AGYW; age 15–24 years) face intersectional barriers to undesired pregnancy prevention, with profound health consequences. Community pharmacies remain a relatively untapped opportunity to improve the reach and quality of contraceptive care for youth. The purpose of this study was to co-design and prototype a digital health, person-centered contraceptive decision support application (the Mara Divas App) tailored fo…
Randomized Controlled Trial of a Tubal Sterilization Decision Aid Among Medicaid Enrollees
INTRODUCTION: Tubal sterilization is a permanent contraceptive method, yet misconceptions about its permanence are prevalent, and its history is marked by both coercion and barriers to access-particularly among Medicaid enrollees. Decision aids may help to support more informed, value-concordant decision-making. METHODS: From March 2020 to November 2023, English- and Spanish-speaking pregnant Medicaid enrollees at less than 24 weeks' gestation we…
Moving Beyond Unintended Pregnancy
Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) research, programming, policy, and services have long relied on the narrow paradigm of “pregnancy intendedness and planning,” including its “unintended pregnancy” measure. This framework is limited and problematic, overlooking diverse perspectives on pregnancy, structural factors, and non‐parenting outcomes such as abortion and adoption. In response, we developed the Self‐Assessed Pregnancy Acceptability (SAPA…
Advancing a Measure of Sexual and Reproductive Well-Being Aligned With Core Values of Reproductive Justice and Human Rights
Sexuality and reproduction are central to people’s life experiences and their ability to thrive. Existing frameworks and measurements related to sexuality and reproduction are predominantly focused on the presence or absence of adverse outcomes, neglecting the critical question of whether people experience positive outcomes and have the sexual and reproductive lives they wish to have. The increased attention to well-being in economic, political, …
Development and Validation of the Agency in Contraceptive Decisions Scale in Uganda and Nigeria
To fill a gap in measures of empowered contraceptive decision‐making, we developed the Agency in Contraceptive Decisions Scale in Uganda and Nigeria. We developed an item pool drawing on the previously published Contraceptive Agency framework. We refined items through cognitive interviews ( N = 80) and expert feedback and piloted a reduced item pool via surveys ( N = 3002). Exploratory factor analysis using a random half of the sample suggested a…
What About Well‐Being? Measuring What We Really Care About in Sexual and Reproductive Health
The well‐being of individuals and communities is increasingly recognized as a core objective of economic and global development policies and programs. However, existing measures of well‐being neglect sexual and reproductive experiences, which are core dimensions of people's lives. While there has been increasing attention to the concept of sexual well‐being, measures of sexual and reproductive health are predominantly deficit‐based and ignore whe…
Person‐Centered Measurement
Despite growing enthusiasm for measurement approaches that capture individuals’ needs, values, and preferences, there remains a lack of conceptual clarity regarding person‐centered measurement in the global field of contraception. In this commentary, we propose a working definition of person‐centered measurement within the contraceptive field and describe how this definition can be applied to existing and novel contraceptive indicators. We argue …
Moving Past a Legacy of Controlling Women
As the global community looks beyond the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda, there is a critical opportunity to refine and elevate indicators focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and to shift nations away from fertility and contraceptive targets. This commentary presents four key frameworks—drawn from a panel at an International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) meeting focused on SRHR measurements…
It's a reality that we in medicine should catch up with
The status of person‐centered contraceptive care in the U nited S tates
The PCCC can capture differential experiences of contraceptive care to monitor patient experience and to motivate and track care quality over time. Differences in reported quality of care have implications for informing national priorities for contraceptive care improvements
Statewide Contraceptive Access Initiatives
Meeting the Needs of Postpartum Women With and Without a Recent Preterm Birth
Quality and Content of Patient–Provider Communication About Contraception
Every Person's Just Different”
Facilitating State-Wide Collaboration around Family Planning Care in the Context of Zika
Rethinking the Pregnancy Planning Paradigm
Approximately half of pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are unintended: They either occurred too soon or were not intended at any time. This commonly cited statistic is testament to the dominance of unintended pregnancy as a public health benchmark for measuring and improving women's reproductive health. In addition to its use as a public health metric, this timing-based definition of unintended pregnancy is reflected in pregna…
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Wiley' s Corporate Citizenship initiative seeks to address the environmental, social, economic and ethical challenges faced in our business that are important to our diverse stakeholder groups. Since launching the initiative, we have focused on sharing our content with those in need, enhancing community philanthropy, reducing our carbon impact, creating global guidelines and best practices for paper use, establishing a vendor code of ethics, and …
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
Contraceptive Counseling
Improving the quality of contraceptive counseling is one strategy to prevent unintended pregnancy. We identify aspects of relational and task-oriented communication in family planning care that can assist providers in meeting their patients' needs. Approaches to optimizing women's experiences of contraceptive counseling include working to develop a close, trusting relationship with patients and using a shared decision-making approach that focuses…
Exploring Young Adults' Contraceptive Knowledge and Attitudes
Bringing Patients' Social Context into the Examination Room
Provider Counseling to Young Women Seeking Family Planning Services
High-quality strategies used by providers to guide contraceptive decision making were tailored to adolescents' developmental and environmental needs. Several areas of counseling require increased attention and seem vital to providing comprehensive reproductive health care to adolescents
Counseling About IUDs
IUD counseling may be improved by enhancing comprehensiveness and patient-centeredness, and by decreasing fragmentation of care
Women's Social Communication About IUDs
Misinformation and negative information about IUDs are prevalent in social communication, and the information transmitted through social networks differs from the information never-users wish to receive. Findings support the creation of peer-led interventions to encourage IUD users to share positive personal experiences and evidence-based information
A Qualitative Analysis of Approaches To Contraceptive Counseling
Most visits did not include interactive engagement between the patient and the provider. Contraceptive counseling interventions should encourage providers to responsively engage with patients of all ages to better meet their contraceptive needs
Rethinking the Pregnancy Planning Paradigm
Approximately half of pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are unintended: They either occurred too soon or were not intended at any time. This commonly cited statistic is testament to the dominance of unintended pregnancy as a public health benchmark for measuring and improving women's reproductive health. In addition to its use as a public health metric, this timing-based definition of unintended pregnancy is reflected in pregna…
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
A Qualitative Analysis of Approaches To Contraceptive Counseling
Most visits did not include interactive engagement between the patient and the provider. Contraceptive counseling interventions should encourage providers to responsively engage with patients of all ages to better meet their contraceptive needs
Disparities in Abortion Rates
Women of lower socioeconomic status and women of color in the United States have higher rates of abortion than women of higher socioeconomic status and White women. Opponents of abortion use these statistics to argue that abortion providers are exploiting women of color and low socioeconomic status, and thus, regulations are needed to protect women. This argument ignores the underlying causes of the disparities. As efforts to restrict abortion wi…
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Contraceptive Method Choice in California
Socioeconomic factors did not explain the disparities in method choice among racial and ethnic groups. Intervention programs that focus on improving contraceptive choice among black and, particularly, Asian populations need to be developed, as such programs have the potential to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies that occur among these high-risk groups
Race, Ethnicity and Differences in Contraception Among Low‐Income Women
Although Family PACT eliminates financial barriers to method choice, the methods women received differed substantially by race and ethnicity in this low-income population. The reduction in racial and ethnic disparities following introduction of the patch suggests that methods with novel characteristics may increase acceptability of contraceptives among minority women
Sociocultural Determinants of Teenage Childbearing Among Latinas in California
Women's Social Communication About IUDs
Misinformation and negative information about IUDs are prevalent in social communication, and the information transmitted through social networks differs from the information never-users wish to receive. Findings support the creation of peer-led interventions to encourage IUD users to share positive personal experiences and evidence-based information
Statewide Contraceptive Access Initiatives
Provider Counseling to Young Women Seeking Family Planning Services
High-quality strategies used by providers to guide contraceptive decision making were tailored to adolescents' developmental and environmental needs. Several areas of counseling require increased attention and seem vital to providing comprehensive reproductive health care to adolescents
Advancing a Measure of Sexual and Reproductive Well-Being Aligned With Core Values of Reproductive Justice and Human Rights
Sexuality and reproduction are central to people’s life experiences and their ability to thrive. Existing frameworks and measurements related to sexuality and reproduction are predominantly focused on the presence or absence of adverse outcomes, neglecting the critical question of whether people experience positive outcomes and have the sexual and reproductive lives they wish to have. The increased attention to well-being in economic, political, …
Person‐Centered Measurement
Despite growing enthusiasm for measurement approaches that capture individuals’ needs, values, and preferences, there remains a lack of conceptual clarity regarding person‐centered measurement in the global field of contraception. In this commentary, we propose a working definition of person‐centered measurement within the contraceptive field and describe how this definition can be applied to existing and novel contraceptive indicators. We argue …
Moving Past a Legacy of Controlling Women
As the global community looks beyond the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals agenda, there is a critical opportunity to refine and elevate indicators focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) and to shift nations away from fertility and contraceptive targets. This commentary presents four key frameworks—drawn from a panel at an International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) meeting focused on SRHR measurements…
The status of person‐centered contraceptive care in the U nited S tates
The PCCC can capture differential experiences of contraceptive care to monitor patient experience and to motivate and track care quality over time. Differences in reported quality of care have implications for informing national priorities for contraceptive care improvements
Counseling About IUDs
IUD counseling may be improved by enhancing comprehensiveness and patient-centeredness, and by decreasing fragmentation of care
A Study of Physician Recommendations for Reversible Contraceptive Methods Using Standardized Patients
The advice women receive about contraception may vary according to the characteristics of their provider. Research on the reasons for these differences is needed
Medical Liability Insurance as a Barrier to the Provision of Abortion Services in Family Medicine
Family physicians who wish to provide abortions have been subject to both denial of coverage by medical liability insurers and the imposition of large premium increases. These policy decisions by insurance companies raise questions about the role of family physicians in abortion care and about the autonomy of medical specialties in defining their scope of practice. We review the issues specific to abortion services in the primary care setting and…
Medical Liability Insurance as a Barrier to the Provision of Abortion Services in Family Medicine
Family physicians who wish to provide abortions have been subject to both denial of coverage by medical liability insurers and the imposition of large premium increases. These policy decisions by insurance companies raise questions about the role of family physicians in abortion care and about the autonomy of medical specialties in defining their scope of practice. We review the issues specific to abortion services in the primary care setting and…
Dehlendorf and Grumbach Respond
We appreciate the comments made by Johnson, and agree that family physicians have the potential to improve access to abortion services for women. As stated in our article, medical liability insurers are inappropriately limiting the ability of trained and willing providers to offer this important service by both refusing to provide coverage for abortion care and by charging inordinately high premiums for this coverage. Medical professional organiz…
Sociocultural Determinants of Teenage Childbearing Among Latinas in California
Disparities in family planning
Recommendations for intrauterine contraception
A Study of Physician Recommendations for Reversible Contraceptive Methods Using Standardized Patients
The advice women receive about contraception may vary according to the characteristics of their provider. Research on the reasons for these differences is needed
Race, Ethnicity and Differences in Contraception Among Low‐Income Women
Although Family PACT eliminates financial barriers to method choice, the methods women received differed substantially by race and ethnicity in this low-income population. The reduction in racial and ethnic disparities following introduction of the patch suggests that methods with novel characteristics may increase acceptability of contraceptives among minority women
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Contraceptive Method Choice in California
Socioeconomic factors did not explain the disparities in method choice among racial and ethnic groups. Intervention programs that focus on improving contraceptive choice among black and, particularly, Asian populations need to be developed, as such programs have the potential to reduce the number of unintended pregnancies that occur among these high-risk groups
Women's preferences for contraceptive counseling and decision making
Disparities in Abortion Rates
Women of lower socioeconomic status and women of color in the United States have higher rates of abortion than women of higher socioeconomic status and White women. Opponents of abortion use these statistics to argue that abortion providers are exploiting women of color and low socioeconomic status, and thus, regulations are needed to protect women. This argument ignores the underlying causes of the disparities. As efforts to restrict abortion wi…
Contraceptive Counseling
Improving the quality of contraceptive counseling is one strategy to prevent unintended pregnancy. We identify aspects of relational and task-oriented communication in family planning care that can assist providers in meeting their patients' needs. Approaches to optimizing women's experiences of contraceptive counseling include working to develop a close, trusting relationship with patients and using a shared decision-making approach that focuses…
Exploring Young Adults' Contraceptive Knowledge and Attitudes
Bringing Patients' Social Context into the Examination Room
Provider Counseling to Young Women Seeking Family Planning Services
High-quality strategies used by providers to guide contraceptive decision making were tailored to adolescents' developmental and environmental needs. Several areas of counseling require increased attention and seem vital to providing comprehensive reproductive health care to adolescents
Counseling About IUDs
IUD counseling may be improved by enhancing comprehensiveness and patient-centeredness, and by decreasing fragmentation of care
Women's Social Communication About IUDs
Misinformation and negative information about IUDs are prevalent in social communication, and the information transmitted through social networks differs from the information never-users wish to receive. Findings support the creation of peer-led interventions to encourage IUD users to share positive personal experiences and evidence-based information
A Qualitative Analysis of Approaches To Contraceptive Counseling
Most visits did not include interactive engagement between the patient and the provider. Contraceptive counseling interventions should encourage providers to responsively engage with patients of all ages to better meet their contraceptive needs
Rethinking the Pregnancy Planning Paradigm
Approximately half of pregnancies occurring each year in the United States are unintended: They either occurred too soon or were not intended at any time. This commonly cited statistic is testament to the dominance of unintended pregnancy as a public health benchmark for measuring and improving women's reproductive health. In addition to its use as a public health metric, this timing-based definition of unintended pregnancy is reflected in pregna…
Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health
Wiley' s Corporate Citizenship initiative seeks to address the environmental, social, economic and ethical challenges faced in our business that are important to our diverse stakeholder groups. Since launching the initiative, we have focused on sharing our content with those in need, enhancing community philanthropy, reducing our carbon impact, creating global guidelines and best practices for paper use, establishing a vendor code of ethics, and …
Realizing Reproductive Health Equity Needs More Than Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (Larc)
Quality and Content of Patient–Provider Communication About Contraception
Every Person's Just Different”
Facilitating State-Wide Collaboration around Family Planning Care in the Context of Zika
Meeting the Needs of Postpartum Women With and Without a Recent Preterm Birth
Statewide Contraceptive Access Initiatives
Medicine (27 works) · Reproductive Health and Contraception (26 works) · Population (23 works) · Family planning (15 works) · Global Maternal and Child Health (15 works) · Environmental health (14 works) · Family medicine (12 works) · Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works)