{"doi":"10.1080/07448481.2022.2089043","title":"Knowledge and intention to use long-acting reversible contraception among university students","abstract":"Objective To assess the relationship between knowledge of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) and intention to use LARC among female students.Participants Participants consisted of a convenience sample of 292 female undergraduate and graduate students at a large midwestern university.Methods We conducted a cross-sectional in-person survey and multivariate analysis of LARC knowledge and intention to use LARC.Results Total response rate was 84.9%. Among contraceptive users, 13.3% were using a LARC method. On average, respondents scored 4.8/10 (SD 2.5) on a 10-item LARC knowledge assessment. Higher levels of LARC knowledge were associated with the intent to use LARC in the future in our multivariate analysis (RR 1.7, 95% CI 1.14–2.54: p = .01). Common reasons for LARC hesitancy were a need for more information, safety concerns, and risk of undesirable side effects.Conclusions Low LARC knowledge and students’ self-identified need for further LARC information represent an opportunity for campus contraceptive interventions which empower students to make informed reproductive decisions.","journal":"Journal of American College Health","year":2022,"id":288175,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":2,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9473,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":968589,"name":"Rachel Bennett","orcid":"0000-0001-9739-0946","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":731957,"name":"Sabrina Cordon","orcid":null,"position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":295281,"name":"Qiuhong Zhao","orcid":"0000-0002-0789-9990","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":909053,"name":"Jeffrey F. Peipert","orcid":"0000-0002-8546-1943","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":968588,"name":"Stephanie M. Asdell","orcid":"0000-0002-3444-5265","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":16,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T00:30:11.069895Z","pmid":"35737977","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}