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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin J Oncol Nurs. 2017 Apr 1;21(2):189–196. doi: 10.1188/17.CJON.189-196

TABLE 2.

QUANTITATIVE STUDIES ABOUT CONTRACEPTION COUNSELING, CONTRACEPTION USE, UNINTENDED PREGNANCY, AND ABORTION AMONG WOMEN WITH CANCER

Study Design Sample Diagnosis Quality and validity
Dominick et al., 2015 Secondary analysis of online or telephone survey 289 women aged 20–44 years with a mean age of 31.6 years; United States Any diagnosis, breast cancer most common; mean time since diagnosis = 2.4 years 85% response rate in original study

Green et al., 2002 Online survey 1915 women; cohort sample from CCSS registry; random sample of survivor siblings; United States and Canada Childhood cancer survivors at least five years from diagnosis 70% response rate from survivors; 44% response rate from siblings

Guth et al., 2015 Secondary analysis of database records 100 women aged 26–40 years with a mean age of 35.9 years; sample from BBCD of women diagnosed between 1990–2007; Switzerland Breast cancer; at diagnosis

Klosky et al., 2012 Mailed survey 184 women aged 15–20 years with a mean age of 18.1 years; cohort sample from CCSS; random sample of survivor siblings aged from 14–20 years; United States and Canada Childhood cancer survivors at least five years from diagnosis 68% response rate from survivors and 51% from siblings; sibling controls randomly selected; instrument (CHIP-AE): Cronbach alpha for questions about “Risk-Individual (with sex questions)” = 0.78–0.8

Klosky et al, 2014 Secondary analysis of data gathered in Klosky et al, 2012

Maslow et al., 2014 Survey 107 women aged 18–45 years; sample from a large tertiary health care system; United States Any cancer diagnosed within last 5 years

Patel et al., 2009 Face-to-face reproductive health survey and demographics through EHRs 20 women aged 15–44 years; convenience sample; Chicago, Illinois Any cancer, 90% breast cancer

Patel et al., 2015 Prospective observational pilot study of an original clinical algorithm; face-to-face reproductive health assessment and blood sample every 3 months for 24 months. 11 women aged 23–48 years with a mean age of 39 years; convenience sample; Chicago, Illinois Breast cancer diagnosed within last three months No controls

Quinn et al., 2014 Online or mailed questionnaire 476 non-sterile women with menstrual bleeding; average age = 41.3 (SD = 8.4 years); randomly sampled from California Cancer Registry Breast cancer, leukemia, gastrointestinal cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma, non Hodgkin lymphoma, other nongynecologic cancers; diagnosed from age 19–40 years 41% response rate

Thewes et al., 2005 Mailed questionnaire 288 women aged 20–40 years with a mean age of 35.3 years at diagnosis; cohort sampling; Australia Breast cancer diagnosed within the past 6–60 months 83% response rate

Winther et al., 2009 Record linkage 1688 women; cohort sampling from the Danish Cancer Registry; Denmark Childhood cancer survivors born between 1950–1984; diagnosed before age 20 years, with pregnancies between 1977–2003 Siblings controls; general population controls

BBCD – Basel Breast Cancer Database; CCSS – Childhood Cancer Survivors Study; CHIP-AE – Child Health and Illness Profile - Adolescent Edition; EHR– electronic health records