Preabortion ultrasound - a patient perspective
PURPOSE: To explore women's perception of the need for an ultrasound scan before medical abortion provided by telemedicine services.
METHODS: We have analysed women's requests for medical abortion through the website www.womenonweb.org from the 1st of January 2019 to the 5th of October 2020. Before receiving abortion drugs for self-managed medical abortion, women received online counselling and were asked to complete an online survey on pre-abortion ultrasound scan and the reasons for having or not having one. The initial dataset included 62641 entries from 207 countries. Each entry corresponded to a person's request for medical abortion. Women reported only one or multiple reasons for not having a pre-abortion ultrasound scan.
RESULTS: Among 59648 women requesting a medical abortion, 45653 (76,54%) did not have any pre-abortion ultrasound scan and specified a reason for that. The countries with the highest rates of women not having a pre-abortion ultrasound scan were Thailand, Poland, Northern Ireland, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Chile, Indonesia, Germany, and Brazil. The main reasons for not having a pre-abortion ultrasound scan were being confident regarding pregnancy length; and thus, no need for a scan stated by 10910/34390 women (31.7%), lack of resources stated by 10589/34390 women (30.8%), and privacy issues stated by 6472/34390 women (18.8%).
CONCLUSION: Most women opting for medical abortion through telemedicine did not undergo a pre-abortion ultrasound scan. The main reason stated was that women did not find it necessary, lack of resources and privacy issues.
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:28 |
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The European journal of contraception & reproductive health care : the official journal of the European Society of Contraception - 28(2023), 5 vom: 12. Okt., Seite 268-273 |
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Date Completed 31.10.2023 Date Revised 31.10.2023 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
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| 520 | |a METHODS: We have analysed women's requests for medical abortion through the website www.womenonweb.org from the 1st of January 2019 to the 5th of October 2020. Before receiving abortion drugs for self-managed medical abortion, women received online counselling and were asked to complete an online survey on pre-abortion ultrasound scan and the reasons for having or not having one. The initial dataset included 62641 entries from 207 countries. Each entry corresponded to a person's request for medical abortion. Women reported only one or multiple reasons for not having a pre-abortion ultrasound scan | ||
| 520 | |a RESULTS: Among 59648 women requesting a medical abortion, 45653 (76,54%) did not have any pre-abortion ultrasound scan and specified a reason for that. The countries with the highest rates of women not having a pre-abortion ultrasound scan were Thailand, Poland, Northern Ireland, Mexico, South Korea, Japan, Chile, Indonesia, Germany, and Brazil. The main reasons for not having a pre-abortion ultrasound scan were being confident regarding pregnancy length; and thus, no need for a scan stated by 10910/34390 women (31.7%), lack of resources stated by 10589/34390 women (30.8%), and privacy issues stated by 6472/34390 women (18.8%) | ||
| 520 | |a CONCLUSION: Most women opting for medical abortion through telemedicine did not undergo a pre-abortion ultrasound scan. The main reason stated was that women did not find it necessary, lack of resources and privacy issues | ||
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