Self-reported experience of abortion care during facility stay
Total (N=327) | Severity of abortion-related complications | ||||
Mild (N=61) | Moderate (N=166) | Potentially life-threatening complications (N=87) | Severe maternal outcomes (N=13) | ||
N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||
Explanations regarding care and treatment (N=313) | |||||
No | 39 (12.5) | 7 (11.7) | 20 (12.6) | 12 (14.8) | 0 |
Able to ask questions during the examination and treatment (N=312) | |||||
No | 40 (12.8) | 6 (10) | 21 (13.3) | 12 (14.8) | 1 (7.7) |
Feel doctor provided everything needed to know about decisions taken for care (N=310) | |||||
No | 48 (15.5) | 8 (13.6) | 27 (17.2) | 12 (14.8) | 1 (7.7) |
Encountered anxiety or stress during hospital stay (N=312) | |||||
Yes | 239 (76.6) | 48 (80) | 120 (75.9) | 61 (75.3) | 10 (76.9) |
If yes to above (N=239), not able to tell doctor or nurse who helped you that you were feeling anxious or stress | 113 (47.5) | 23 (47.9) | 62 (52.1) | 24 (39.3) | 4 (40) |
If yes to above (N=125), not offered additional support when you told the doctor or nurse about feeling the anxiety or stress | 28 (22.8) | 8 (32) | 12 (21.4) | 8 (22.2) | 0 |
Feel choices and preferences were followed during hospital stay (N=312) | |||||
No | 44 (14.1) | 6 (10) | 23 (14.6) | 15 (18.5) | 0 |
Spoken to nicely (N=311) | |||||
No | 28 (9) | 5 (8.3) | 15 (9.6) | 8 (9.9) | 0 |
Receive pain medications during hospital stay (N=312) | |||||
No | 25 (8) | 4 (6.7) | 16 (10.1) | 5 (6.2) | 0 |
If yes (N=287), pain medications did not help ease pain | 12 (4.2) | 3 (5.4) | 6 (4.2) | 3 (3.9) | 0 |