Self-reported experience of abortion care during facility stay
| Severity of abortion-related complications | |||||
| Total (n=3091) | Severe maternal outcomes (n=96) | Potentially life-threatening complications (n=316) | Moderate (n=1851) | Mild (n=828) | |
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||
| Explanations regarding care and treatment (n=2950) | |||||
| No | 562 (19.1) | 25 (27.5) | 63 (20.7) | 333 (18.9) | 141 (17.7) |
| Able to ask questions during the examination and treatment (n=2950) | |||||
| No | 1009 (34.2) | 31 (34.1) | 115 (37.8) | 610 (34.7) | 253 (31.8) |
| Feel healthcare provider informed you about decisions taken for care (n=2944) | |||||
| No | 639 (21.7) | 22 (24.2) | 73 (24.0) | 385 (21.9) | 159 (20.0) |
| Encountered anxiety or stress during hospital stay (n=2942) | |||||
| Yes | 1587 (53.9) | 53 (58.2) | 163 (53.9) | 949 (54.1) | 422 (53.1) |
| If yes to above (n=1585), not able to tell healthcare provider who helped you that you were feeling anxious or stress | 679 (42.8) | 20 (37.7) | 63 (38.7) | 422 (44.6) | 174 (41.2) |
| If yes to above (n=906), not offered additional support when you told the healthcare provider about feeling the anxiety or stress | 102 (11.3) | 2 (6.1) | 6 (6.0) | 69 (13.1) | 25 (10.1) |
| Feel choices and preferences were followed during hospital stay* (n=2935) | |||||
| No | 542 (18.5) | 17 (18.7) | 48 (16.0) | 352 (20.1) | 125 (15.7) |
| Spoken to nicely (n=2940) | |||||
| No | 257 (8.7) | 7 (7.7) | 21 (6.9) | 172 (9.8) | 57 (7.2) |
| Receive pain medications during hospital stay (n=2940) | |||||
| No | 389 (13.2) | 8 (8.8) | 31 (10.3) | 255 (14.6) | 95 (11.9) |
| If yes (n=2551), pain medications did not help ease pain | 144 (5.6) | 5 (6.0) | 9 (3.3) | 83 (5.5) | 47 (6.7) |
*P<0.05.