| Literature DB >> 9104608 |
H Sangi-Haghpeykar1, A N Poindexter, D C Moseley, L Bateman, E D Reid.
Abstract
Among 600 women at 17 family planning clinics in Texas who expressed interest in using the hormonal injectable depot medroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA), 536 (89%) actually received the injectable. Thirty percent of the DMPA recipients were younger than 21 and 77% were not married. The average numbers of pregnancies and births were 1.9 and 1.2 per woman; one-third of the women had had at least one abortion. The majority of women receiving DMPA (66%) were using it to space births. Their main sources of information about the method were friends (42%) and health care providers (37%), and the most commonly reported reason for its use was dissatisfaction with previous contraceptive methods.Entities:
Keywords: Acceptor Characteristics; Acceptors; Age Factors; Americas; Communication; Contraception; Contraceptive Agents; Contraceptive Agents, Female; Contraceptive Agents, Progestin; Demographic Factors; Depo-provera; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Family Planning; Family Planning Programs; Family Planning Surveys; Knowledge Sources; Low Income Population--women; Marital Status; Medroxyprogesterone Acetate; North America; Northern America; Nuptiality; Population; Population Characteristics; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Texas; United States
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Year: 1995 PMID： 9104608
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Fam Plann Perspect ISSN： 0014-7354