Unintended Pregnancy and Its Correlates among Female Attendees of Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinics in Eastern China
| Autor: | Masako Ono-Kihara, Yun Xu, Qiaoqin Ma, Xiaohong Pan, Jiezhe Yan, Masahiro Kihara, Gaofeng Cai |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Sexually transmitted disease
Adult medicine.medical_specialty China Article Subject Cross-sectional study media_common.quotation_subject Population Sexually Transmitted Diseases lcsh:Medicine Fertility Abortion urologic and male genital diseases General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Nursing Pregnancy Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans education Reproductive health media_common education.field_of_study General Immunology and Microbiology business.industry lcsh:R Pregnancy Unplanned Abortion Induced General Medicine medicine.disease female genital diseases and pregnancy complications Family medicine Female business Unintended pregnancy Research Article |
| Zdroj: | BioMed Research International BioMed Research International, Vol 2013 (2013) |
| ISSN: | 2314-6133 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2013/349174 |
| Popis: | This study is to determine the prevalence of unintended pregnancy and its risk factors among the female attendees of sexually transmitted disease (STD) clinics in Zhejiang Province, China. A self-administered questionnaire survey of a cross-sectional design was administered to attendees at four STD clinics in 2007. Of the 313 female STD clinic attendees, 42.5% reported that they had at least one unintended pregnancy; the induced abortion rate was 39.0%. Over their lifetime, 12.1% responded “use condoms always/often” and 5.4% “always/often used oral contraceptives.” The risk factors for the unintended pregnancy identified by the multivariate analysis were as follows: being married, experience of nonconsensual sex, and a history of STD, having two and over two sexual partners. Unintended pregnancies and induced abortion by female STD clinic attendees have reached an alarming prevalence. Doctors at STD clinics should attach importance not only to the STD problem of the female attendees, but also to the unintended pregnancy and the associated factors. Targeted contraceptive counseling and intervention should be promoted at STD clinics as a strategy to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the reproductive health services in China. |
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