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- Title
Characteristics of Injectable Contraceptive Users In a Low-Income Population in Texas.
- Authors
Sangi-Haghpeykar, Haleh; Poindexter 3rd, Alfred N.; Moseley, Deana C.; Bateman, Louise; Reid, Eladio D.
- Abstract
Among 600 women at 17 family planning clinics in Texas who expressed interest in using the hormonal injectable depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), 536 (89%) actually received the injectable. Thirty percent of the DMPA recipients were younger than 21 and 77% were not married. The average numbers of pregnancies and births were 1.9 and 1.2 per woman; one-third of the women had had at least one abortion. The majority of women receiving DMPA (66%) were using it to space births. Their main sources of information about the method were friends (42%) and health care providers (37%), and the most commonly reported reason for its use was dissatisfaction with previous contraceptive methods.
- Subjects
BIRTH control clinics; BIRTH control; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE; INJECTABLE contraceptives; ABORTION; PREGNANCY
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1995, Vol 27, Issue 5, p208
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2136277