Study on Contraceptive Use among Induced Abortion Women in Shanghai

TANG Wen-juan; LI Xian-chen; CUI Yuan-qi; JIANG Wei; LOU Chao-hua; YU Chun-yan; WANG Zi-liang; ZHU Qian-qian; CHENG Yan

Abstract：Objective:To understand and analyze the situation of contraceptive use among women seeking abortions in Shanghai. Methods:The computer-assisted anonymous questionnaire was used to collect data among 1 261 women seeking abortions in 4 hospitals in Shanghai from August to October in 2013. Results:Nearly 60% of the respondents were under the age of 29 and 32.6% were unmarried. Over 50% of the respondents reported having abortion experiences before. Compared with those married women, the unmarried women had a higher proportion of unprotected intercourse (48.0% vs. 33.9%) and a lower proportion of contraceptive use failure (38.6% vs. 47.8%). Logistic regression analysis indicated that younger or sexually inactive women tended not to take contraceptive measures among those married respondents , and that those women who were young, unmarried, with a higher income or a history of abortion were more likely to use emergency contraception. Conclusions:Young women with high proportion of repeated abortion constituted the majority of respondents in Shanghai. Two main factors of unwanted pregnancy are the low proportion of contraceptive use and the high proportion of failure use of contraceptives. It is important to strengthen the post-abortion care services and the contraceptive education, especially to teach them how to use contraceptives, because those induced abortion women were lack of contraceptive precaution or knowledge.