Aborto induzido: uma comparação entre mulheres casadas e solteiras residentes na cidade de São Paulo em 2008

Abstract

The scope of this study was to evaluate the association between having had an induced abortion and marital status (being single or legally married) in women residing in the city of São Paulo. This analysis is derived from a broader population survey on abortion conducted in 2008. In this study we focus on the subset of 389 single and legally married women between 15 and 49 years of age. Logistic regression models were used to evaluate the association between induced abortion and being single or married, monitoring age, education, income, number of live births, contraceptive use and acceptance of the practice of abortion. Being single was the only characteristic associated with having had an induced abortion, in other words, when faced with a pregnancy single women were four times more likely to have an abortion than married women (OR=3.9; p=0.009).

Prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of women with induced abortion in a population sample of São Paulo, Brazil

“…One can think of omission in the statements of the young women, but it should also be considered that "the higher the age, the longer the exposure period to pregnancy and abortion" 16 . The sociodemographic characteristic "marital status" is one of the possible definers of the occurrence or not of an induced abortion in the existence of an unplanned pregnancy 7 in the population studied, the Pr for the categorized variable "single", as shown in results, indicates that the officially sigle women (until the moment of the interview) induced about three times more abortions than the married/united ones 28 . These women also had a higher incidence of paid activity, lower household income, and lower schooling 7,28 , factors that contribute to the choice of iA along with the fact that they find themselves alone facing an unintended pregnancy 18,20 .…”

“…The sociodemographic characteristic "marital status" is one of the possible definers of the occurrence or not of an induced abortion in the existence of an unplanned pregnancy 7 in the population studied, the Pr for the categorized variable "single", as shown in results, indicates that the officially sigle women (until the moment of the interview) induced about three times more abortions than the married/united ones 28 . These women also had a higher incidence of paid activity, lower household income, and lower schooling 7,28 , factors that contribute to the choice of iA along with the fact that they find themselves alone facing an unintended pregnancy 18,20 . in a worldwide review of induced abortion 29 , published in 2001, which included countries in which abortion was legalized and countries where it is restricted by law, developed countries and developing countries, it was concluded by the authors: "in more than half of the analyzed countries, married women have a higher percentage of abortions that single women.…”