Trends in Comprehensive Abortion Care (CAC) and characteristics of women receiving abortion care in a tertiary hospital in Nepal

BMC Women's Health
Jamuna Tamrakar Sayami

Abstract

One of the leading cause of maternal mortality and morbidity is unsafe abortion. Globally 55.7million of abortions occurred each year between 2010 and 2014. In lower resource countries 24.3 million abortions were unsafe which is significantly higher. Nepal is one of the lower resource countries among others. Comprehensive abortion care (CAC) service can reduce this burden among women. A retrospective review of CAC service register at Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) was conducted to collect data from 2006 to2015 with approval from the Nursing Department to identify the trends of CAC service delivery, client characteristics, category of service providers, and reason for seeking CAC services, its effectiveness and complications. The data was entered in SPSS software and descriptive analysis was performed. A total of 2367 women received CAC in ten years period showing similar trend as 272-275 cases per year. Women's mean age was 28.4 years, 34% attained secondary level education and 98.9% were married. 70% were house wives and 84% multi gravid. The gestational period varied from 5 to 12 weeks. 85.6% had Manual Vacuum Aspiration (MVA) and 14.4% had Medical Abortion (MA). Only 37.6% women used any method of post abortio...Continue Reading

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Feb 12, 2020·Journal of Clinical Nursing·Lydia MaineyKathleen Baird

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
contraception

Software Mentioned

SPSS
Provera
Depo
excel

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