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Abortion experiences among Zanzibari women: a chain-referral sampling study

Overview of attention for article published in Reproductive Health, March 2016
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Title
Abortion experiences among Zanzibari women: a chain-referral sampling study
Published in
Reproductive Health, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12978-016-0129-9
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Authors

Alison Norris, Bryna J. Harrington, Daniel Grossman, Maryam Hemed, Michelle J. Hindin

Abstract

In Zanzibar, a semi-autonomous region of Tanzania, induced abortion is illegal but common, and fewer than 12 % of married reproductive-aged women use modern contraception. As part of a multi-method study about contraception and consequences of unwanted pregnancies, the objective of this study was to understand the experiences of Zanzibari women who terminated pregnancies. The cross-sectional study was set in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Participants were a community-based sample of women who had terminated pregnancies. We carried out semi-structured interviews with 45 women recruited via chain-referral sampling. We report the characteristics of women who have had abortions, the reasons they had abortions, and the methods used to terminate their pregnancies. Women in Zanzibar terminate pregnancies that are unwanted for a range of reasons, at various points in their reproductive lives, and using multiple methods. While clinical methods were most effective, nearly half of our participants successfully terminated a pregnancy using non-clinical methods and very few had complications requiring post abortion care (PAC). Even in settings where abortion is illegal, some women experience illegal abortions without adverse health consequences, what we might call 'safer' unsafe abortions; these kinds of abortion experiences can be missed in studies about abortion conducted among women seeking PAC in hospitals.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Unknown 88 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 22 24%
Student > Bachelor 9 10%
Researcher 7 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 8%
Other 3 3%
Other 12 13%
Unknown 30 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 20 22%
Social Sciences 15 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 13%
Arts and Humanities 2 2%
Environmental Science 2 2%
Other 9 10%
Unknown 30 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 June 2018.
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#2,969,808
of 22,990,068 outputs
Outputs from Reproductive Health
#327
of 1,422 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#49,086
of 299,986 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Reproductive Health
#3
of 16 outputs
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