Women's perceptions of pregnancy continuation and how they assessed the completeness of the abortion process
Among women who completed both follow-up interviews (n=394) | ||
% | n | |
Women who reported that they were no longer pregnant at the time of the second follow-up interview | 95.4 | 376 |
Reasons given for believing pregnancy has ended (n=376)* | ||
Woman's period returned. | 53.7 | 202 |
Woman took a urine pregnancy test at home. | 33.2 | 125 |
Woman no longer has pregnancy symptoms. | 24.7 | 93 |
Woman took a blood pregnancy test. | 16.0 | 60 |
Woman passed the products of conception. | 13.3 | 50 |
Woman took a urine pregnancy test at a facility. | 5.1 | 19 |
Woman had a sonogram/ultrasound. | 4.0 | 15 |
Woman got cleaned at a facility/surgical intervention. | 1.9 | 7 |
Other. | 0.8 | 3 |
Women who reported a complete abortion without surgical intervention | 93.7 | 369 |
*Multiple responses were allowed.