PMID: 2121178Aug 1, 1990Paper

Knowledge and use of postcoital contraception: a survey among health professionals in Tower Hamlets

The British Journal of General Practice : the Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners
R Burton, W Savage

Abstract

The knowledge and estimated retrospective use of postcoital contraception was ascertained from health professionals in Tower Hamlets in the summer of 1988 using a postal questionnaire. Eighty five per cent of general practitioners responded and 91% of these had received requests for postcoital contraception within the previous six months. Only one third of general practitioners had information about postcoital contraception available in their surgeries. Family planning doctors and nurses had the most accurate knowledge of the method but many health professionals appeared to lack sufficient knowledge to ensure appropriate prescribing and to publicize this method to their women patients. It is concluded that if the high rate of abortion in the borough is to be reduced, health professionals as well as women need to be further educated as part of a postcoital contraception publicity campaign. Use of the term 'emergency contraception' rather than the non-medical term 'the morning after pill' may be more effective and reduce the present confusion among both groups.

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