Survey on the Contraceptive Knowledge of the Women with Induced-abortion and Its influence Factors

Objective To provide evidence for normative plans of post abortion care (PAC) by collecting data of the contraceptive knowledge of 843 women with unwanted pregnancy. Me thods This study recruited 843 women with unwanted pregnancy from March to September 2016 in Kunming Maternal and Child Health Hospital.Face-to-face interview and questionnaire were applied. Re s ults (1) The score of the contraceptive knowledge was7.23 ±2.81, which was in positive correlation with age and education level (P <0.05) . (2) Repeated induced-abortion rate was 54.59%, mainly in the women of 20 to 40 years old, which was significantly related to the age, education level and residential status (P<0.05) .The younger the woman was, the higher the repeated induced-abortion rate went, so was the education level. Repeated induced-abortion rate of the floating population was significantly higher than that of the non-floating population (P <0.05) . (3) The contraceptive knowledge score of the women who had college educational background, did not give birth and had repeated induced-abortion history was higher than that of the women who first had induced-abortion (P <0.05) . Conclus ion The contraceptive knowledge of the women with unwanted pregnancy is related to the age, education level and residential status. Varied measures should be taken to improve the awareness rate of contraceptive knowledge and effective contraceptive rate and to reduce the occurrence of repeated abortion.