Author/Editor		Rimmer, C; Horga, M; Cerar, V; Alder, EM; Baird, DT; Glasier, A
Title		Do women want a once-a-month pill?
Type		članek
Source		Hum Reprod
Vol. and No.		Letnik 7, št. 5
Publication year		1992
Volume		str. 608-11
Language		eng
Abstract		The attitudes of women of reproductive age in Scotland, Romania and Slovenia to the idea of a contraceptive pill which is taken only once each month or only when menses are delayed was investigated. In all three centres, the great majority of women felt positive towards the idea of a once-a-month pill which inhibited ovulation and greater than 50 percent found a pill which inhibited or interfered with implantation an acceptable idea. Only 24 percent of women in Scotland were attracted to the idea of a pill which was taken only if menstruation was delayed by 1 or 2 days, that is a pill which would cause an abortion, while in contrast 58 percent of women in Slovenia and 80 percent in Romania thought that such a method of controlling fertility would be acceptable. Attitudes were not related to age, social class or marital status but were influenced by religious belief and in Scotland by a history of abortion. In countries where the availability of contraception is limited and abortion is common, women would seem to welcome another method of fertility regulation--even one which disrupts the very early stages of pregnancy.
Descriptors		ATTITUDE TO HEALTH CONTRACEPTIVES, ORAL ABORTION, INDUCED ADULT QUESTIONNAIRES RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY ROMANIA SCOTLAND TIME FACTORS YUGOSLAVIA