Exploring Young Adult Womxn's Experiences with Emergency Contraception and Abortion Care in Northern Ontario During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Multi-Methods Qualitative Study
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Timely access to emergency contraception services and abortion care is vital for sexual and reproductive health. Rural communities in Canada, including Northern Ontario, face various barriers when accessing comprehensive sexual and reproductive health services. This qualitative multi-methods study aimed to explore young adult womxn's experiences with emergency contraception services and abortion care in Northern Ontario before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to understand the facilitators and barriers to accessing these services and avenues for improving care in general and during future public health emergencies. This study consisted of two components: an online survey with young adult women and other pregnancy capable people who reside in Northern Ontario and have experience with emergency contraception or abortion care, and in-depth interviews with a subset of the survey participants. The findings of the study highlight barriers to accessing emergency contraception services and abortion care in Northern Ontario, as well as a lack of knowledge and education on these critical components of sexual and reproductive health. The COVID-19 pandemic further impacted experiences accessing sexual and reproductive health services in Northern Ontario. Exploring adaptive strategies to improve access to sexual and reproductive health services and education for young adult women and other pregnancy capable people living in Northern Ontario is warranted.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".