School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
School of Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States.
Contraception. 2023 Dec;128:110279. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2023.110279. Epub 2023 Sep 6.
To assess access to abortion pills offered by clinics providing state-funded family planning services in California.
We attempted to make two scripted calls to a 20% random sample of family planning clinics in California, stratified by county, as "secret shoppers" in 2020 and 2021.
Clinic staff responded to 407 calls. Only 50 respondents (12%) reported their clinic offered abortion pills and 23 respondents (6%) accurately indicated to callers that abortion pills were available free to low-income individuals in California. Most (68%) clinics that did not offer abortion pills could not direct callers to a clinic that did offer abortion pills.
Efforts are needed to increase the number of clinics providing medication abortion services in California. Clinic staff need training to provide accurate information about medication abortion.
评估在加利福尼亚州提供政府资助计划生育服务的诊所提供堕胎药的可及性。
我们试图在 2020 年和 2021 年作为“秘密顾客”，对加利福尼亚州计划生育诊所的 20%随机样本进行了两次预定电话访问。
诊所工作人员接听了 407 个电话。只有 50 名受访者（12%）表示他们的诊所提供堕胎药，23 名受访者（6%）准确地告诉来电者，在加利福尼亚州，低收入者可以免费获得堕胎药。大多数（68%）不提供堕胎药的诊所无法为来电者转介提供堕胎药的诊所。
需要努力增加在加利福尼亚州提供药物流产服务的诊所数量。诊所工作人员需要接受培训，以提供有关药物流产的准确信息。
