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Socio-clinical profile of married women with history of induced abortion: A community-based cross-sectional study in a rural area

BACKGROUND: Induced abortion contributes significantly to maternal mortality in developing countries yet women still seek repeat induced abortion in spite of the availability of contraceptive services. OBJECTIVES: (1) To study the sociodemographic profile of abortion seekers. (2) To study the reason...

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Autores principales: Pattanaik, Sumitra, Patnaik, Lipilekha, Subhadarshini, Arpita, Sahu, Trilochan
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026757
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.214967
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author Pattanaik, Sumitra
Patnaik, Lipilekha
Subhadarshini, Arpita
Sahu, Trilochan
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Patnaik, Lipilekha
Subhadarshini, Arpita
Sahu, Trilochan
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description BACKGROUND: Induced abortion contributes significantly to maternal mortality in developing countries yet women still seek repeat induced abortion in spite of the availability of contraceptive services. OBJECTIVES: (1) To study the sociodemographic profile of abortion seekers. (2) To study the reasons for procuring abortions by married women of reproductive age group. MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was a cross-sectional community-based study. All the married women of reproductive age group (15–49 years) with a history of induced abortion were selected as the subjects. RESULTS: The most common reason for seeking an abortion was poverty (39.4%), followed by girl child and husband's insistence, which accounted for 17.2% each. More complications were noted in women undergoing an abortion in places other than government hospitals and also who did it in the second trimester. CONCLUSIONS: To reduce maternal deaths from unsafe abortion, several broad activities require strengthening such as decreasing unwanted pregnancies, increasing geographic accessibility and affordability, upgrading facilities that offers medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) services, increasing awareness among the reproductive age about the legal and safe abortion facilities, the consequences of unsafe abortion, ensuring appropriate referral facilities, increasing access to safe abortion services and increasing the quality of abortion care, including postabortion care.
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spelling pubmed-56299082017-10-12 Socio-clinical profile of married women with history of induced abortion: A community-based cross-sectional study in a rural area Pattanaik, Sumitra Patnaik, Lipilekha Subhadarshini, Arpita Sahu, Trilochan J Family Med Prim Care Original Article BACKGROUND: Induced abortion contributes significantly to maternal mortality in developing countries yet women still seek repeat induced abortion in spite of the availability of contraceptive services. OBJECTIVES: (1) To study the sociodemographic profile of abortion seekers. (2) To study the reasons for procuring abortions by married women of reproductive age group. MATERIALS AND METHODS: It was a cross-sectional community-based study. All the married women of reproductive age group (15–49 years) with a history of induced abortion were selected as the subjects. RESULTS: The most common reason for seeking an abortion was poverty (39.4%), followed by girl child and husband's insistence, which accounted for 17.2% each. More complications were noted in women undergoing an abortion in places other than government hospitals and also who did it in the second trimester. CONCLUSIONS: To reduce maternal deaths from unsafe abortion, several broad activities require strengthening such as decreasing unwanted pregnancies, increasing geographic accessibility and affordability, upgrading facilities that offers medical termination of pregnancy (MTP) services, increasing awareness among the reproductive age about the legal and safe abortion facilities, the consequences of unsafe abortion, ensuring appropriate referral facilities, increasing access to safe abortion services and increasing the quality of abortion care, including postabortion care. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5629908/ /pubmed/29026757 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.214967 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Pattanaik, Sumitra
Patnaik, Lipilekha
Subhadarshini, Arpita
Sahu, Trilochan
Socio-clinical profile of married women with history of induced abortion: A community-based cross-sectional study in a rural area
title Socio-clinical profile of married women with history of induced abortion: A community-based cross-sectional study in a rural area
title_full Socio-clinical profile of married women with history of induced abortion: A community-based cross-sectional study in a rural area
title_fullStr Socio-clinical profile of married women with history of induced abortion: A community-based cross-sectional study in a rural area
title_full_unstemmed Socio-clinical profile of married women with history of induced abortion: A community-based cross-sectional study in a rural area
title_short Socio-clinical profile of married women with history of induced abortion: A community-based cross-sectional study in a rural area
title_sort socio-clinical profile of married women with history of induced abortion: a community-based cross-sectional study in a rural area
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629908/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026757
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.214967
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