Modern Postpartum Contraception: The Experience of Nabil Choucair Health Center, Dakar (Senegal)

• 作者: Jean Charles Moreau
• 来源期刊: 妇产科期刊(英文)
• 学科: 数学
• 关键词: CONTRACEPTION POSTPARTUM Mother and Child Health
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（7）
• 页码范围: 930-945
• 页数: 16页
• 分类号: O17

摘要

<strong>Introduction: </strong><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">In Senegal, according to the 2017 Demographic Health Survey, </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">about 22% of married women have an unmet need for family planning. Globally</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, 61% of women do not have access to postpartum family planning. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Material </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and Method: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">This is a prospective, descriptive and analytical study from March</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> 05, 2017 to January 31, 2018. The interrogation was done in the hospital ward with filling in the data collection form. The data collected was first coded and then entered, using the sphinx software. The data analysis was done with Epi info version 7 software and included a descriptive and analytical component. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The average age of the patients was 26 years with extremes of 15 and </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">48 years. Average gestation was 2.3 with extremes of 1 and 8 pregnancies. More </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">than half of the women (64.7%) had delivered by caesarean in an emergency setting. More than half of the women (66.7%) had chosen the hormonal contraceptive method within 48 hours of delivery and the implant was the type of </span><span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">contraceptive prescribed in almost half of the cases (49.3%). </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Conclusion: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Integrating postpartum family planning into programs will ultimately help to dramat</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ically decrease high-risk pregnancies, decrease the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">unmet need for family plannin</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">g (FP), and imp