Greasing the wheels: The impact of COVID-19 on US physician attitudes and practices regarding medication abortion.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To explore US provider perspectives about self-sourced medication abortion and how their attitudes and clinic practices changed in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Study design

We conducted a multi-method study of survey and interview data. We performed 40 baseline interviews and surveys in spring 2019 and 36 follow-up surveys and ten interviews one year later. We compared pre- and post-Likert scale responses of provider views on the importance of different aspects of standard medication abortion assessment and evaluation (e.g., related to ultrasounds and blood-typing). We performed content analysis of the follow-up interviews using deductive-inductive analysis.

Results

Survey results revealed that clinics substantially changed their medication abortion

SUBMITTER: Karlin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8080497 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature