When it comes to choice of contraceptives by women with learning disabilities, less than a third have formal assessments for mental capacity, and just fewer than 40 per cent make the final choice about contraceptives themselves.
Women with learning disabilities are unable to decide on contraceptives on their own. Most of them often do not get the final say over the type of contraceptives they use and are often not sexually active.
Some of the women have some say over the types of contraceptives they use.
General practitioners are the most significant other final decision makers for 23 per cent of the women, and mothers are the second most influential decision makers for 16 per cent of the women. The input from the women’s fathers appears to be negligible.
The contraceptive implant is the most common form of contraception used, followed by the combined contraceptive pill. In this case only 28 percent of women are sexually active.
In 15 per cent of cases there is an expectation that the women would become sexually active, while a fear of pregnancy and need to manage menstruation are cited in 31 and 17 per cent of cases respectively.
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