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YEAR: 1995

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Problems for discussion on contraception for women after childbirth.

[Diskussionnye voprosy kontratseptsii u zhenshchin posle rodov.]

AUTHORS

Frolova OG; Volgina VF; Pugacheva TN

SOURCE

AKUSHERSTVO I GINEKOLOGIIA. 1995;(6):43-7.

ABSTRACT

Questionnaires were administered to 300 postpartum women in 3 delivery wards in Moscow to determine their

opinions about contraceptives. Similarly, 100 gynecologists-obstetricians were queried in 2 wards, at 2 counseling

sites for women, and at regional seminars of gynecologists-obstetricians. 52% of the physicians recommended the

condom to nursing mothers whenever sexual activity was resumed and the IUD from the 3rd and 4th month on. 60%

of the doctors thought that women who were not breast feeding could similarly start using the condom and from the

3rd and 4th month either the IUD (82%) or oral contraceptives (36%). 71.1% of the women were under 30 years of age,

and were relatively well educated. 68% of them had their first birth, 28.3% had their second, only 3.7% had their third

or higher order of births. 35% of the women did not plan the present pregnancy. 81% of the women were using

contraception up to the time of the present pregnancy, and the most popular methods were coitus interruptus (36.3%),

the rhythm method (35.3%), the condom (28.3%), the IUD (13%), and hormonal methods (10.6%). Although 46.3% of

the women preferred the IUD after birth, only 7.3% of them preferred hormonal preparations. In this study 71.5% of the

mothers were breast feeding their infants. 13.5% of the women had gestosis in the 2nd half of the pregnancy, 5.8%

had anemia, and 21.3% experienced the threat of miscarriage. In 12.9% of the cases there were other pathologies

unrelated to pregnancy, and 14% of the births were accomplished by means of cesarean section. Only 12.1% and

13% of the women, respectively, received information about postpartum contraception at the women's counseling

sites and delivery wards. 46.3% of the women wanted to use IUDs, but only 7.3% wanted to use hormonal

preparations. Only about half of the women expressed their opinion about sterilization: 23% were against it, while

29.7% were for it. The results indicated that the preparation of women for postpartum contraception should already

start at the counseling place during pregnancy. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT2T 3018-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Problems for discussion on contraception for women after

childbirth. [Diskussionnye voprosy kontratseptsii u zhenshchin posle rodov.]", is(are) Frolova OG; Volgina VF;

Pugacheva TN. The source of this article is "AKUSHERSTVO I GINEKOLOGIIA. 1995;(6):43-7.". This article was

published in 1995 in Russian language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document ID: CONT2T 3018-06. All rights reserved with

PubHealth.info) PIN: 8018

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