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Hi. I'm a nursing student writing a short 'teaching topics' paper for my maternity rotation. MY topic is contraception. Anyway...how would you categorize an IUD? I suppose the Mirena would be categorized as hormonal (but non-systemic), but how do you categorize the Paragard? Would they even be categorized together (categorizing them together would work a lot better for me since I've already written up the explanation for the both together.

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They can both be classified as intra-uteruine contraceptive devices, but their mechanism of how they prevent pregnancy is quite different, as you alluded to. Maybe you can have hormonal and non-hormonal subcategories. However, if you're categorizing the way other contraceptives work as either hormonal or non hormonal, then I would separate them. It's important to know there's a difference, because many women think IUD is a generic term for the Mirena when they have more options they might not have realized.

I came in to say what the previous commenter said, but they said it better :) Also, I can in to say I'm also a nursing student! I'm graduating in December ^_^

Edited 2012-09-20 10:19 (UTC)

I've seen them both categorized as long acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs)

That's certainly how Planned Parenthood and Besider.org classify them. Maybe the classifications for the OP work more on mechanism?

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