M Antonia Biggs
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 124442 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | M Antonia Biggs |
| NOMBRES | M Antonia |
| APELLIDO | Biggs |
| FIRMA | BIGGS M A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3904-3177 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 44 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Pregnant and Recently Pregnant People’s Views on Policies That Punish Pregnant People Who Use Cannabis
OBJECTIVE: To explore recently/currently pregnant people's experiences and views about cannabis use during pregnancy and their associated support for policies that punish pregnant people who use cannabis. METHODS: A market research firm administered a survey (May-June 2022) to pregnant and recently pregnant people ages 18-49 regarding their attitudes about cannabis use policies and practices. We used multivariable regression to assess whether can…
No-Test Screening Protocols May Disproportionately Exclude Structurally Oppressed Communities Who Could Benefit from Accessing Medication Abortion
Objective: To explore disparities in ineligibility for medication abortion using no-test screening criteria compared with assessment with testing including ultrasound. Methods: From June 2021 to December 2022, we surveyed patients ages ≥15 seeking abortion at nine recruitment facilities in eight U.S. states before ultrasound; clinicians assessed patients’ eligibility for medication abortion with ultrasound and other testing. Using clinical guidel…
Incidence of Ectopic Pregnancy and Diagnostic Accuracy of Ectopic Pregnancy Screening Criteria Among People Seeking Versus Not Seeking Abortion
Attitudes regarding the safety of in-clinic and self-managed abortion methods among the US general public in early 2022
Medication abortion (MAB) is extremely safe-including when accessed outside the formal healthcare system-yet misinformation about its safety often influences policy, and research regarding public perceptions about its safety remains limited. In 2021-2022, we administered a US national probability-based online survey to 7,376 English- and/or Spanish-speaking people assigned female (AFAB, ages 15-49; N = 7,016) or male at birth (AMAB, ages 18-49; N…
Imagining Coat‐Hangers and Pills
Objective We explored awareness of and attitudes about the safety of various methods people use to attempt to end a pregnancy without medical assistance, which we refer to in this study collectively as self‐managed abortion (SMA). Methods In 2020, we invited individuals living in eight United States (US) states considered “hostile” to abortion rights or with a history of criminalizing abortions performed outside the formal healthcare system to pa…
Medicalization as a social good? Lay perceptions about self-managed abortion, legality, and criminality
Interest in ending a pregnancy outside the formal healthcare sector, also known as self-managed abortion (SMA), is expected to increase in the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade. However, there is little social scientific research on public perceptions of SMA, particularly regarding opinions around legality and criminalization. We seek to fill this gap in this paper by drawing on 54 in-depth interviews with a mixed-gender sample (men, women, n…
Failure of the Law to Grant Access to Legal Abortion in Chile
Introduction: In 2017, Chile decriminalized abortion on three grounds: (i) if the pregnant person's life is at risk, (ii) fetal nonviability, and (iii) rape or incest. This multicase study explores the experiences of pregnant people legally entitled to but denied access to legal abortion in Chile. Methods: Through a snowball sampling approach, we recruited adult Chilean residents who sought, were eligible for, and were denied a legal abortion aft…
Interest in and Support for Alternative Models of Medication Abortion Provision Among Patients Seeking Abortion in the United States
Although most abortion patients expressed interest in and support for alternative models of medication abortion provision, variation in support across race/ethnicity highlights a need to ensure that abortion care service models meet the needs and preferences of all patients, particularly people from historically underserved populations
Support for criminalization of self-managed abortion (SMA)
Association Between Facility and Clinician Characteristics and Family Planning Services Provided During U.S. Outpatient Care Visits
Family planning services were more likely to be provided in urban areas, at community health centers, and when patients received team-based care. The wide variation between clinicians suggests a need to better incorporate family planning services into primary care and other outpatient settings to meet patient needs and preferences
Reasons for Having Unprotected Sex Among Adolescents and Young Adults Accessing Reproductive Health Services
Person-centered care should give attention to the range of reasons that may influence young people's sexual and contraceptive decision-making
Intimate relationships after receiving versus being denied an abortion
Carrying an unwanted pregnancy to term does not increase the chance of being in an intimate relationship with the man involved in the pregnancy but may have negative implications for the quality of future relationships up to 5 years post-abortion seeking
Socioeconomic Outcomes of Women Who Receive and Women Who Are Denied Wanted Abortions in the United States
Socioeconomic Outcomes of Women Who Receive and Women Who Are Denied Wanted Abortions in the United States D. G. FosterPhD, M. A. BiggsPhD, L. RalphPhD, MPH, C. GerdtsPhD, MHS, S. RobertsDrPH, and M. M. GlymourScD, MS CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304247r Published Online: August 15, 2022
Pre-Abortion Informed Consent Through Telemedicine vs. in Person
The Role of Health Care Providers in Young Women's Attitudes about and Willingness to Use Emergency Contraceptive Pills
Exploring Attitudes About the Legality of Self-Managed Abortion in the US
Introduction Twenty-four states have at least one law in place that could be used to prosecute people for self-managed abortion (SMA), or the termination of a pregnancy outside of the formal healthcare system. We investigated factors associated with public attitudes about SMA legality and legal access to abortion more generally. Methods In August 2017, we surveyed a nationally representative sample of English- and Spanish-speaking women ages 18–4…
Chilean Medical and Midwifery Faculty's Views on Conscientious Objection for Abortion Services
CONTEXT: In 2017, Chile reformed its abortion law to allow the procedure under limited circumstances. Exploring the views of Chilean medical and midwifery faculty regarding abortion and the use of conscientious objection (CO) at the time of reform can inform how these topics are being taught to the country's future health care providers. METHODS: Between March and September 2017, 30 medical and midwifery school faculty from universities in Santia…
Provider Practices and Young Women's Experiences with Provider Self-disclosure during Emergency Contraceptive Visits
There were notable differences between patient and provider attitudes toward PSD of contraceptive method use, with patients expressing more positive feelings about the practice than providers. Community-based providers should consider that many young women welcome self-disclosure of provider contraceptive experiences and that more research is needed to understand the effects of PSD practices around contraception on the patient-provider relationsh…
The Fine Line Between Informing and Coercing
Providers try to promote their young patients' autonomous decision making, but their support for high-efficacy methods can result in coercive practices. More training is needed to ensure that providers employ patient-centered counseling approaches, including honoring patient requests for removals
Obviously there is a conflict between confidentiality and what you are required to do by law
A Prospective Cohort Study of the Effect of Receiving versus Being Denied an Abortion on Educational Attainment
Young Women's Perspectives About the Contraceptive Counseling Received During Their Emergency Contraception Visit
We found that young women seeking EC appreciated learning about other contraceptive methods, but do not want to feel pressured to adopt a method in addition to EC. Findings highlight the importance of respecting young women's contraceptive decisions for building and maintaining provider trust and suggest that contraceptive counseling approaches that prioritize specific methods may reduce some young women's trust in providers and use of reproducti…
Attitudes Toward Abortion After Receiving vs. Being Denied an Abortion in the USA
Expanding the Abortion Provider Workforce
California's expansion of the abortion-providing workforce had a positive impact on patient care in the sampled organizations. However, various organizational obstacles must be addressed to more fully realize the benefits of having NPs, CNMs and PAs provide aspiration abortions
Women’s Mental Health and Well-being 5 Years After Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion
In this study, compared with having an abortion, being denied an abortion may be associated with greater risk of initially experiencing adverse psychological outcomes. Psychological well-being improved over time so that both groups of women eventually converged. These findings do not support policies that restrict women's access to abortion on the basis that abortion harms women's mental health.
Willingness to Have Unprotected Sex
Little is known about people's willingness to engage in sex without protection from unwanted pregnancy. This study surveyed 1,497 women and men at 75 clinics and physician offices across California after their reproductive health care visits in late 2007 and early 2008. When asked if they would have sex without contraception, 30% said definitively that yes, they would have unprotected sex, and 20% indicated they would "sometimes" or "maybe" engag…
Support for criminalization of self-managed abortion (SMA)
The Fine Line Between Informing and Coercing
Providers try to promote their young patients' autonomous decision making, but their support for high-efficacy methods can result in coercive practices. More training is needed to ensure that providers employ patient-centered counseling approaches, including honoring patient requests for removals
Attitudes Toward Abortion After Receiving vs. Being Denied an Abortion in the USA
Mental Health Diagnoses 3 Years After Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion in the United States
Objectives. We set out to assess the occurrence of new depression and anxiety diagnoses in women 3 years after they sought an abortion. Methods. We conducted semiannual telephone interviews of 956 women who sought abortions from 30 US facilities. Adjusted multivariable discrete-time logistic survival models examined whether the study group (women who obtained abortions just under a facility’s gestational age limit, who were denied abortions and c…
Factors Associated With Delayed Childbearing
There has been limited research on the protective factors that help Latinas delay childbearing until adulthood. In-depth interviews were conducted with 65 pregnant Latina teenage and adult women in California who were about to have their first child. Lack of or inconsistent birth control use as teens was attributed to wanting or ambivalence toward childbearing, concern about contraceptive side effects and infertility, and/or inadequate contracept…
Socioeconomic Outcomes of Women Who Receive and Women Who Are Denied Wanted Abortions in the United States
Socioeconomic Outcomes of Women Who Receive and Women Who Are Denied Wanted Abortions in the United States D. G. FosterPhD, M. A. BiggsPhD, L. RalphPhD, MPH, C. GerdtsPhD, MHS, S. RobertsDrPH, and M. M. GlymourScD, MS CopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2017.304247r Published Online: August 15, 2022
Estimates of Pregnancies Averted Through California's Family Planning Waiver Program in 2002
CONTEXT: During its first year of operation (1997‐1998), California's family planning program, Family PACT, helped more than 750,000 clients to avert an estimated 108,000 pregnancies. Given subsequent increases in the numbers of clients served and contraceptive methods offered by the program, updated estimates of its impact on fertility are needed. METHODS: Claims data on contraceptives dispensed were used to estimate the number of pregnancies ex…
Exploring Attitudes About the Legality of Self-Managed Abortion in the US
Introduction Twenty-four states have at least one law in place that could be used to prosecute people for self-managed abortion (SMA), or the termination of a pregnancy outside of the formal healthcare system. We investigated factors associated with public attitudes about SMA legality and legal access to abortion more generally. Methods In August 2017, we surveyed a nationally representative sample of English- and Spanish-speaking women ages 18–4…
Cost Savings From the Provision of Specific Methods of Contraception in a Publicly Funded Program
Objectives. We examined the cost-effectiveness of contraceptive methods dispensed in 2003 to 955 000 women in Family PACT (Planning, Access, Care and Treatment), California's publicly funded family planning program. Methods. We estimated the number of pregnancies averted by each contraceptive method and compared the cost of providing each method with the savings from averted pregnancies. Results. More than half of the 178 000 averted pregnancies …
Obviously there is a conflict between confidentiality and what you are required to do by law
Adolescent Latino Reproductive Health
Latino adolescent reproductive health has become an increasingly important topic because of the growth in the numbers of Latino youth and because Latino youth are at high risk for negative reproductive health outcomes. Latinas now have the highest teen birth rates, and Latinos have disproportionately high rates of HIV/AIDS. These trends highlight the need for greater understanding of the sexual and reproductive health and behavior of Latino youth…
Integrating Chlamydia trachomatis Control Services For Males in Female Reproductive Health Programs
Integrating Chlamydia trachomatis Control Services For Males in Female Reproductive Health Programs
Estimates of Pregnancies Averted Through California's Family Planning Waiver Program in 2002
CONTEXT: During its first year of operation (1997-1998), California's family planning program, Family PACT, helped more than 750,000 clients to avert an estimated 108,000 pregnancies. Given subsequent increases in the numbers of clients served and contraceptive methods offered by the program, updated estimates of its impact on fertility are needed. METHODS: Claims data on contraceptives dispensed were used to estimate the number of pregnancies ex…
Estimates of Pregnancies Averted Through California's Family Planning Waiver Program in 2002
CONTEXT: During its first year of operation (1997‐1998), California's family planning program, Family PACT, helped more than 750,000 clients to avert an estimated 108,000 pregnancies. Given subsequent increases in the numbers of clients served and contraceptive methods offered by the program, updated estimates of its impact on fertility are needed. METHODS: Claims data on contraceptives dispensed were used to estimate the number of pregnancies ex…
Family Planning and Life Planning
Cost Savings From the Provision of Specific Methods of Contraception in a Publicly Funded Program
Objectives. We examined the cost-effectiveness of contraceptive methods dispensed in 2003 to 955 000 women in Family PACT (Planning, Access, Care and Treatment), California's publicly funded family planning program. Methods. We estimated the number of pregnancies averted by each contraceptive method and compared the cost of providing each method with the savings from averted pregnancies. Results. More than half of the 178 000 averted pregnancies …
Factors Associated With Delayed Childbearing
There has been limited research on the protective factors that help Latinas delay childbearing until adulthood. In-depth interviews were conducted with 65 pregnant Latina teenage and adult women in California who were about to have their first child. Lack of or inconsistent birth control use as teens was attributed to wanting or ambivalence toward childbearing, concern about contraceptive side effects and infertility, and/or inadequate contracept…
Estimating the Fertility Effect of Expansions of Publicly Funded Family Planning Services in California
Latina adolescents' perceptions of their male partners' influences on childbearing
Teenage births among Latina women living in the USA remain higher than any other racial/ethnic group. This study explored the role that male partners play in the occurrence of pregnancy and their influence on teenage mothers' future plans in a sample of women pregnant with their first child. Qualitative analysis revealed that partners played a significant role in the use of contraception, timing and desire for pregnancy and young women's post-pre…
Willingness to Have Unprotected Sex
Little is known about people's willingness to engage in sex without protection from unwanted pregnancy. This study surveyed 1,497 women and men at 75 clinics and physician offices across California after their reproductive health care visits in late 2007 and early 2008. When asked if they would have sex without contraception, 30% said definitively that yes, they would have unprotected sex, and 20% indicated they would "sometimes" or "maybe" engag…
Limited Socioeconomic Opportunities and Latina Teen Childbearing
Misunderstanding the Risk of Conception from Unprotected and Protected Sex
Unprotected Intercourse among Women Wanting to Avoid Pregnancy
Understanding why women seek abortions in the US
BACKGROUND: The current political climate with regards to abortion in the US, along with the economic recession may be affecting women's reasons for seeking abortion, warranting a new investigation into the reasons why women seek abortion. METHODS: Data for this study were drawn from baseline quantitative and qualitative data from the Turnaway Study, an ongoing, five-year, longitudinal study evaluating the health and socioeconomic consequences of…
The Role of Intimate Partners in Women's Reasons for Seeking Abortion
Does abortion reduce self-esteem and life satisfaction
There is no evidence that abortion harms women's self-esteem or life satisfaction in the short term
Mental Health Diagnoses 3 Years After Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion in the United States
Objectives. We set out to assess the occurrence of new depression and anxiety diagnoses in women 3 years after they sought an abortion. Methods. We conducted semiannual telephone interviews of 956 women who sought abortions from 30 US facilities. Adjusted multivariable discrete-time logistic survival models examined whether the study group (women who obtained abortions just under a facility’s gestational age limit, who were denied abortions and c…
Women’s Mental Health and Well-being 5 Years After Receiving or Being Denied an Abortion
In this study, compared with having an abortion, being denied an abortion may be associated with greater risk of initially experiencing adverse psychological outcomes. Psychological well-being improved over time so that both groups of women eventually converged. These findings do not support policies that restrict women's access to abortion on the basis that abortion harms women's mental health.
The Role of Publicly Funded Family Planning Sites In Health Insurance Enrollment
Although there were significant variations among them, publicly funded family planning providers in California are actively engaged in health insurance enrollment. Supporting their vital role in enrollment could help in the achievement of universal health insurance coverage
Young Women's Perspectives About the Contraceptive Counseling Received During Their Emergency Contraception Visit
We found that young women seeking EC appreciated learning about other contraceptive methods, but do not want to feel pressured to adopt a method in addition to EC. Findings highlight the importance of respecting young women's contraceptive decisions for building and maintaining provider trust and suggest that contraceptive counseling approaches that prioritize specific methods may reduce some young women's trust in providers and use of reproducti…
Attitudes Toward Abortion After Receiving vs. Being Denied an Abortion in the USA
Expanding the Abortion Provider Workforce
California's expansion of the abortion-providing workforce had a positive impact on patient care in the sampled organizations. However, various organizational obstacles must be addressed to more fully realize the benefits of having NPs, CNMs and PAs provide aspiration abortions
A Prospective Cohort Study of the Effect of Receiving versus Being Denied an Abortion on Educational Attainment
Chilean Medical and Midwifery Faculty's Views on Conscientious Objection for Abortion Services
CONTEXT: In 2017, Chile reformed its abortion law to allow the procedure under limited circumstances. Exploring the views of Chilean medical and midwifery faculty regarding abortion and the use of conscientious objection (CO) at the time of reform can inform how these topics are being taught to the country's future health care providers. METHODS: Between March and September 2017, 30 medical and midwifery school faculty from universities in Santia…
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