Deborah Loxton

ORCID: 0000-0002-4745-8612 · 6 papers in corpus
observational 2023
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0268872

BACKGROUND: Pregnancies among women with chronic disease are associated with poor maternal and fetal outcomes. There is a need to understand how women use or don't use contraception across their reproductive years to better inform the devel…

observational 2022
Reproductive health ·doi:10.1186/s12978-022-01413-x

BACKGROUND: Given chronic disease is increasing among young women and unintended pregnancies among these women are associated with poor maternal and fetal outcomes, these women would benefit from effective preconception care. However, there…

other 2022
Health & social care in the community ·doi:10.1111/hsc.13546

Delayed health care access is a potential collateral effect of pandemic conditions, health rationing strategies and social distancing responses. We investigated experiences of delayed health care access in Australian women during COVID-19. …

observational 2021
PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0254668

BACKGROUND: Chronic disease represents an ongoing public health challenge in Australia with women disproportionately affected and at younger ages compared to men. Accurate prevalence and ascertainment of chronic disease among women of repro…

other 2017
BMC family practice ·doi:10.1186/s12875-017-0616-2

BACKGROUND: Access to most contraceptives in Australia requires a prescription from a doctor, and it has been shown that doctors can influence women's decision-making with respect to contraception. However, little research has documented ho…

observational 2015
Journal of medical Internet research ·doi:10.2196/jmir.4048

BACKGROUND: Relatively little is known about the extent to which young adults use the Internet as a health information resource and whether there are factors that distinguish between those who do and do not go online for health information.…