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Hospital Counseling in Khartoum: A Study of Factors Affecting Contraceptive Acceptance After Abortion
Author(s) -
Rushwan Hamid E.,
Ferguson James G.,
Bernard Roger P.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
international journal of gynecology and obstetrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.895
H-Index - 97
eISSN - 1879-3479
pISSN - 0020-7292
DOI - 10.1002/j.1879-3479.1977.tb00728.x
Subject(s) - medicine , abortion , family planning , family medicine , parity (physics) , fertility , developed country , population , gynecology , pregnancy , research methodology , environmental health , genetics , physics , particle physics , biology
This study examines the impact of contraceptive counseling on 3 263 women hospitalized in Khartoum for treatment of incomplete abortion. The analysis, which focused on education and parity/child desire, revealed that the counseling program produced contraceptive acceptance among 47.0% of those followed up. In spite of the counseling efforts, half of the women in this study did not accept contraception following the abortion—regardless of education or parity/child desire. It is difficult to determine why 50% of those who had recently undergone an incomplete abortion were willing to put themselves at risk again. Apparently, future efforts to increase the impact of counseling programs must also examine patients' motivation to accept (or not to accept) contraception.