MEDICO-SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN TERMINATING THE PREGNANCY

Abstract

The specially designed anonymous survey was performed in 300 women
living in the Republic of Uzbekistan who decided to terminate the pregnancy. The
medico-social characteristics of women terminating the pregnancy correspond to
general population in the majority of parameters. Many women have low
contraceptive competence, mistaken opinion and incomplete information about the
harm of abortion. One third of abortions are the consequence of contraceptive
failure. One fourth of abortions finish the first pregnancy. The main reasons of
termination of pregnancy are social and economic problems, unwillingness to
change the way of life, lack of correspondence of age with idea of optimal term for
pregnancy, instability of family relations. The comparative analysis of reasons of
abortion in Uzbek women showed that the main reason is instability of family
relations and pregnancy in single women.