Judith Stephenson

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus
meta-analysis 2025
The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners ·doi:10.3399/bjgp.2024.0082

BACKGROUND: Routine primary care data may be a valuable resource for preconception health research and to inform the provision of preconception care. AIM: To review how primary care data could provide information on the prevalence of preco…

qualitative 2024
Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy ·doi:10.1111/hex.14181

INTRODUCTION: There is growing scientific and policy recognition that optimising health before a potential pregnancy (preconception health) improves reproductive outcomes and the lifelong health of future children. However, public awareness…

2023
·doi:10.22541/au.169030988.81480889/v1

Objective: To evaluate the implementation of the London Measure of Unplanned Pregnancy (LMUP) in antenatal care. Design: Mixed methods evaluation of a pilot. Setting: Antenatal care at University College London Hospital and Homerton Hospita…

review 2014
The journal of family planning and reproductive health care ·doi:10.1136/jfprhc-2013-100600

BACKGROUND: Extended use of the combined oral contraceptive pill (COC), defined as taking active pills for at least 28 days, has been used in order to avoid bleeding at important times and to treat gynaecological conditions such as endometr…

observational 2013
International journal of women's health ·doi:10.2147/IJWH.S51329

BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to determine attitudes to, and provision of, extended regimens for taking the combined oral contraceptive pill (COC) by specialist contraception practitioners from three contrasting specialist contr…