Effect of Post-abortion Care on Psychological State and Contraception Right after Artificial Abortion among Unmarried Women
SHI Jing-fang
Abstract：Objective:To explore the effect of post-abortion care on the psychological state and contraception right after artificial abortion among unmarried women. Methods:One hundred and twenty unmarried women of early pregnancy with painless artificial abortion were randomly assigned to two groups in this prospectively comparative study. Sixty cases in the control group were provided with the traditional abortion service, and 60 cases were provided with the post-abortion care (PAC) as the PAC group. Contraceptive application immediately after induced abortion was estimated , and the differences of anxiety between preoperation and postoperation were compared by the self-rating anxiety scale (SAS) in two groups. Results:The mean scores of preoperative SAS in two group were(47.8±8.3) and (47.6±8.2), respectively(P>0.05). The mean score of postoperative SAS in PAC group(28.2±4.7) was significantly lower than that in the control group (45.6± 6.1) (t=12.901,P=0.000). The rate of contraceptive application immediately after induced abortion was 78.33%in PAC group, which was significantly higher than that in the control group (11.67%)(P<0.05). Conclusions:PAC should be promoted for improving effective contraceptive application immediately after induced abortion and reducing anxiety among those unmarried women, which is beneficial to female reproductive health.
Keywords：Family planning servicesAbortioninducedManifest anxiety scaleContraception
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 38-40 )