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A SURVEY ON ATTITUDES TO FAMILY PLANNING AMONG 360 BRISBANE WOMEN
Author(s) -
Berry Glenise,
Kratzing Lorna,
Job Eena,
Blunt Alan
Publication year - 1972
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1972.tb103563.x
Subject(s) - family planning , family medicine , medicine , birth control , questionnaire , demography , population , environmental health , research methodology , sociology , social science
A K.A.P. type questionnaire was obtained from 360 women attending 18 suburban general practitioners’ surgeries in Brisbane. All women were found to have some knowledge of birth control, and the majority of women approved of birth control and used some form of contraception. Sixty per cent of the 960 children born to these women were found to be unplanned. The great majority of women approved of the idea of the establishment of a family planning clinic service, although more women (53%) wished to consult their general practitioner rather than a family planning clinic (41%).