Experiences with pain of early medical abortion: qualitative results from Nepal, South Africa, and Vietnam.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical abortion (MA) has become an increasingly popular choice for women even where surgical abortion services are available. Pain is often cited by women as one of the worst aspects of the MA experience, yet we know little about women's experience with pain management during the process, particularly in low resource settings. The aim of this study is to better understand women's experiences of pain with MA and strategies for improving quality of care.

Methods

This qualitative study was conducted as part of a three-arm randomized, controlled trial in Nepal, Vietnam, and South Africa to investigate the effect of prophylactic pain management on pain during MA through 63 days' gestation. We purposively sampled seven parous and seven nulliparous women with a range of

SUBMITTER: Grossman D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6794877 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature