Barrett G, Peacock J, Victor C R
Department of Public Health Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School, London.
Public Health. 1998 May;112(3):157-63. doi: 10.1016/s0033-3506(98)00221-2.
Studies of women undergoing termination of a pregnancy are often used to make recommendations about family planning and health education policy. However, it is not clear how similar the women in these studies are to the general population of women of childbearing age. Our secondary analysis of the National Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles Survey allowed us to test the hypothesis that women who have undergone an abortion are the same as those who have not (in terms of socio-demographic characteristics, lifestyles, and attitudes). Our findings show significant differences between these two groups of women, particularly regarding ethnicity, marital status, number of natural children, lifetime number of sexual partners, and attitudes to abortion. We conclude that family planning/reproductive health services and health education policies need to take these differences into account and that further research is required to explain why these differences arise.
对接受终止妊娠手术的女性进行的研究常被用于提出有关计划生育和健康教育政策的建议。然而，这些研究中的女性与育龄女性总体人群的相似程度尚不清楚。我们对全国性态度和生活方式调查进行的二次分析，使我们能够检验这样一个假设，即接受过堕胎手术的女性与未接受过堕胎手术的女性相同（在社会人口特征、生活方式和态度方面）。我们的研究结果表明，这两组女性之间存在显著差异，尤其是在种族、婚姻状况、亲生子女数量、性伴侣终身数量以及对堕胎的态度方面。我们得出结论，计划生育/生殖健康服务和健康教育政策需要考虑到这些差异，并且需要进一步开展研究来解释这些差异为何会出现。
