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- Title
Induced abortion and effecting factors of ever married women in the Southeast Anatolian Project Region, Turkey: a cross sectional study.
- Authors
Bozkurt, Ali Ihsan; Özcirpici, Birgul; Ozgur, Servet; Sahinoz, Saime; Sahinoz, Turgut; Saka, Gunay; Ceylan, Ali; Ilcin, Ersen; Acemoglu, Hamit; Palanci, Yilmaz; Akkafa, Feridun; Ak, Mucide
- Abstract
Background: Nearly 10% of the population of Turkey lives in the Southeast Anatolian Project (SEAP) region. The population growth rate and the rate of unintended pregnancies are high and family planning services are insufficient in this region. Lifetime induced abortion rate is also high in this region. Public health problems of the SEAP region were investigated in the "SEAP Public Health Project" in 2001 and 2002. As it is one of the most important health problems of the women living in this region; induced abortion was also investigated in this project. Methods: An optimumsample size representing the rural and urban area of the region (n = 1150) was chosen by the State Institute of Statistics by a sampling method proportional to size. 1126 of the area's 1150 houses have been visited and data about induced abortions have been obtained by applying a questionnaire to 1491 ever married women who live in the region. Results: It has been found that 9.0% of these women who had at least one pregnancy in their life had at least one induced abortion. The lifetime induced abortion per 100 pregnancies was found to be 2.45. The primary reason given for induced abortions was "wanting no more children" (64.6%). Lifetime induced abortions were 5.3 times greater with women using a family planning method than women not using family planning methods. Lifetime induced abortions were 4.1 times greater with unemployed women than working women. Most of the women have used private doctors in order to have an induced abortion.
- Subjects
TURKEY; ABORTION; MARRIED women; PREGNANCY; BIRTH control
- Publication
BMC Public Health, 2004, Vol 4, p65
- ISSN
1471-2458
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2458-4-65