Wome's perceptions of the safety of the pill : a survey in eight developing countries

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1987

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Journal of Biosocial Science, No. 19

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1-9

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In January 1985, a Gallup poll sponsored by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecologists reported that 76% of the US women sampled thought that there were substantial risks with using the pill, 31% thought the pill caused cancer and 64% thought the risk of childbearing was equal to or less than that in taking the pill. To assess the perceptions of the pill’s safety internationally, a survey of 100-150 urban, middle-class women aged 18-45 years was conducted in each of eight countries in the developing world. There were striking similarities in perceptions of the pill’s health effects between countries: (1) taking the pill is considered to have substantial health risks by 50-75% and is thought to be more hazardous than childbearing by over 40% of respondents except those in the African samples; (2) women who had used the pill are as unaware as those who had not of possible serious cardiovascular adverse effects; (3) the protective effects of the pill are virtually unknown; (4) the greatest inconsistency with scientific evidence concerns the risks of sterility and birth defects attributed to pill use. With information from this survey, family planning programmes can rectify almost universal misperceptions of the pill’s safety when counselling new and continuing pill users.

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ANTICONCEPTIVOS, ANTICONCEPTIVOS ORALES, PILDORAS ANTICONCEPTIVAS

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