Congrats to Dr. Sonya Borrero for being a plenary speaker at Academy Health's Annual Research Meeting!
Learn more about this year's plenary and special session speakers here: https://academyhealth.org/page/2023-arm-featured-speakers
Our team developed a novel patient-facing decision aid to support evidence-based and value-concordant decision making about tubal sterilization among people with Medicaid insurance. Check out our updated webpage and one pager which covers our needs assessment and primary outcomes.
Dr. Traci Kazmerski, Olivia Stransky, Dr. Sonya Borrero, Dr. Megan Hamm, and Dr. Mehret Birru Talabi conducted focus groups with rheumatologists and rheumatology advanced practice providers to elicit their solutions to overcoming barriers to sexual and reproductive health care.
Findings demonstrate that pregnancy confirmation is more accessible at crisis pregnancy centers (CPC) than at abortion facilities and they are predicted to be exacerbated in the wake of abortion clinic closures following the Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court decision. This highlights the need for improved funding and support for pregnancy confirmation service delivery in medical settings, including abortion facilities.
Drs. Lisa Callegari and Sonya Borrero are evaluating MyPath in VA primary care to increase the quality and person-centeredness of reproductive health care delivery in primary care.
Drs. Lisa Callegari and Sonya Borrero led a cross sectional study to understand the perceived quality of contraceptive counseling in the VA primary care and assess factors associated with perceived high- and low-quality contraceptive counseling. Based on their findings, more opportunities exist to improve the quality of contraceptive counseling, including more consistent efforts to seek patients' perspectives with respect to contraceptive decisions.
In their recent JAMA article, Lisa Callegari and Sonya Borrero discuss how Veteran Affair’s move to provide abortion in cases of rape, incest, and life/health endangerment, recognizing abortion as an essential health service for Veterans.
Drs. Sonya Borrero, Mehret Birru Talabi, and Christine Dehlendorf discuss the abortion service landscape in their recent JAMA article, confronting how the recent Dobbs decision has caused the medical community to reckon with the systematic exclusion, marginalization, and stigma of abortion care.
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In Dr. Sonya Borrero's recent study, men who showed less accurate knowledge and who were interested in vasectomy point to the need for increased awareness and education so men have the information they need to meet their reproductive goals and contribute greater involvement in family planning.
Findings from Dr. Borrero's and Dr. Jarlenski's recent study show that patients residing in states with Medicaid coverage for abortion had lower odds and rates of:
Read more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36075060/
