Diniz Debora, Medeiros Marcelo
Instituto de Bioética, Brasília DF.
Cien Saude Colet. 2010 Jun;15 Suppl 1:959-66. doi: 10.1590/s1413-81232010000700002.
This study presents the first results of the National Abortion Survey (PNA, Pesquisa Nacional de Aborto), a household random sample survey fielded in 2010 covering urban women in Brazil aged 18 to 39 years. The PNA combined two techniques, interviewer-administered questionnaires and self-administered ballot box questionnaires. The results of PNA show that at the end of their reproductive health one in five women has performed an abortion, with abortions being more frequent in the main reproductive ages, that is, from 18 to 29 years old. No relevant differentiation was observed in the practice of abortion among religious groups, but abortion was found to be more common among people with lower education. The use of medical drugs to induce abortion occurred in half of the abortions, and post-abortion hospitalization was observed among approximately half of the women who aborted. Such results lead to conclude that abortion is a priority in the Brazilian public health agenda.
本研究展示了巴西全国堕胎调查（PNA，Pesquisa Nacional de Aborto）的首批结果。该调查于2010年开展，是一项针对巴西18至39岁城市女性的家庭随机抽样调查。PNA结合了两种技术，即访员协助填写的问卷和自行填写的票箱问卷。PNA的结果显示，在其生殖健康结束时，五分之一的女性进行过堕胎，堕胎在主要生育年龄（即18至29岁）更为频繁。在宗教群体中，堕胎行为未观察到显著差异，但发现堕胎在受教育程度较低的人群中更为普遍。一半的堕胎使用了药物引产，约一半堕胎女性术后住院。这些结果得出结论，堕胎是巴西公共卫生议程中的一个优先事项。
