Hannah McCulloch

• Evaluation Researcher at British Pregnancy Advisory Service

Objective To assess patient experiences of pain management during medical abortion up to 10 weeks’ gestation with opt-in versus universal codeine provision. Methods We invited patients who underwent medical abortion up to 10 weeks of gestation to participate in an online, anonymous, English-language survey from November 2021 to March 2022. We perf...

Background: Web-based services for testing of sexually transmitted infections are widely available across the United Kingdom. Remote prescriptions with medications posted home may support prompt treatment; however, the absence of face-to-face contact with clinicians raises clinical safety issues as medical history may not be accurately provided....

Objectives To describe user experience of obtaining and uploading biometric measurements to a ‘digital-only’ contraceptive service prior to a prescription for the combined oral contraceptive (COC). To analyse this experience to inform the design of safe and acceptable ‘digital-only’ online contraceptive services. Setting An online contraceptive se...

Objective(s) To compare agreement between self-reported height, weight and blood pressure measurements submitted to an online contraceptive service with researcher-measured values and document strategies used for self-reporting. Design An observational study. Setting An online sexual health service which provided the combined oral contraceptive p...

Background Online contraception services increasingly provide information, clinical assessment and home-delivered oral contraceptives (OCs). Evidence is lacking on the effects of online contraceptive service use on short-term contraceptive continuation. Methods Cohort study comparing contraceptive continuation between new users of a free-to-access...

Background Recent media attention has been given to an apparent shift away from hormonal methods of contraception. While an increase in fertility awareness-based or ‘natural’ family planning methods is reported in the grey literature, there are no robust data to determine any such trend in the UK. Methods We compared self-reported contraceptive us...

Objective To explore experiences of pain during medical abortion and provide patient-centred recommendations for improving abortion experience and pain counselling. Methods We invited patients of British Pregnancy Advisory Service who underwent medical abortion up to 10 weeks’ gestation to participate in an online, English language questionnaire f...

BACKGROUND Web-based services for testing of sexually transmitted infections are widely available across the United Kingdom. Remote prescriptions with medications posted home may support prompt treatment; however, the absence of face-to-face contact with clinicians raises clinical safety issues as medical history may not be accurately provided. OB...

Background Young people in the UK face multiple barriers to attending sexual health clinics (SHCs) and are at high risk for sexually transmitted infections (STIs), despite widely available free and confidential STI testing. Studies have shown that point-of-care tests (POCTs) for STIs, which can accurately diagnose and treat patients in one clinical...