PMID: 9437558Jan 23, 1998Paper

Self-administration with UniJect of the once-a-month injectable contraceptive Cyclofem

Contraception
L BahamondesC A Petta

Abstract

The objective of this study was to evaluate women's acceptance of and ability to self-administrate the injectable contraceptive Cyclofem using prefilled UniJect devices. A total of 102 women were invited to participate in the study. Fourteen women (13.7%) refused to participate. Of the remaining 88 women, 32 women (31.4%) consented to participate and were trained using oranges but were still afraid of the procedure and ultimately refused to self-administer the injections. Only 56 women (55%) ultimately self-injected Cyclofem with UniJect. They performed a total of 144 injections, all of them on the ventral side of the thigh. When nurses evaluated women's ability to activate the devices, they found that more than 80% were successful in both the group of women that later self-administered the injections and the group that did not. The evaluation of the self-administered injection technique showed that more than 90% of the women correctly self-administered the contraceptive using UniJect. With respect to the opinion of the women about the self-administration of the contraceptive, more than 50% (32 of 56) of women who self-injected preferred to self-administer the injection and said that they wished to continue with the self-admini...Continue Reading

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