Foster Angel M, Wynn L L, Trussell James
Ibis Reproductive Health, Cambridge, MA, USA; Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Contraception. 2014 Mar;89(3):174-80. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2013.05.005. Epub 2013 May 20.
The worldwide expansion of the Internet offers an important modality of disseminating medically accurate information about medication abortion. We chronicle the story of www.medicationabortion.com, an English-, Spanish-, Arabic- and French-language website dedicated to three early abortion regimens.
We evaluated the website use patterns from 2005 through 2009. We also conducted a content and thematic analysis of 1910 emails submitted during this period.
The website experienced steady growth in use. In 2009, it received 35,000 visits each month from more than 20,000 unique visitors and was accessed by users in 208 countries and territories. More than half of all users accessed the website from a country in which abortion is legally restricted. Users from more than 40 countries sent emails with individual questions. Women often wrote in extraordinary detail about the circumstances of their pregnancies and attempts to obtain an abortion. These emails also reflect considerable demand for information about the use of misoprostol for self-induction.
The use patterns of www.medicationabortion.com indicate that there is significant demand for online information about abortion, and the findings suggest future priorities for research, collaboration and educational outreach.
互联网在全球的扩张为传播有关药物流产的医学准确信息提供了一种重要方式。我们记述了www.medicationabortion.com这个网站的情况，它是一个提供英语、西班牙语、阿拉伯语和法语内容的网站，专注于三种早期流产方案。
我们评估了该网站2005年至2009年的使用模式。我们还对这期间提交的1910封电子邮件进行了内容和主题分析。
该网站的使用量稳步增长。2009年，每月有超过20000名独立访客访问该网站，访问量达35000次，来自208个国家和地区的用户访问了该网站。超过半数的用户是从堕胎受到法律限制的国家访问该网站的。来自40多个国家的用户发送了带有个人问题的电子邮件。女性常常非常详细地讲述她们的怀孕情况以及寻求堕胎的经历。这些电子邮件也反映出对米索前列醇自我引产信息的大量需求。
www.medicationabortion.com的使用模式表明，人们对堕胎的在线信息有巨大需求，研究结果为未来的研究、合作及教育推广指明了优先方向。
