Table 3.
Participants' knowledge of a place and complication of abortion at Hawassa University, SNNPR, Ethiopia, April 2019.
| Characteristics | Number | % | |
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| Have you heard about emergency contraceptive drug? | Yes | 406 | 96.2 |
| No | 9 | 2.1 | |
| Not sure | 7 | 1.7 | |
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| Did you use emergency contraceptive following sex? | Yes | 326 | 77.3 |
| No | 96 | 22.7 | |
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| Have you had abortion? | Yes | 290 | 68.7 |
| No | 132 | 31.3 | |
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| Reasons for undertaking abortion | Because it affects my education | 98 | 33.7 |
| Because I cannot raise a child | 96 | 33.1 | |
| To protect social stigma | 65 | 22.4 | |
| Because I got pregnant due to sexual assault | 22 | 7.6 | |
| Others | 11 | 3.2 | |
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| Did you know where abortion is performed legally? | Yes | 265 | 62.8 |
| No | 156 | 37.0 | |
| Am not sure | 1 | 0.2 | |
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| Respondent place of performing abortion | Community pharmacy | 76 | 26.4 |
| Health center | 104 | 35.8 | |
| Private clinic | 109 | 37.5 | |
| Traditional | 1 | 0.3 | |
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| How long since undertaking of abortion? | 1 month | 72 | 24.8 |
| 2 months | 114 | 39.3 | |
| 3 months | 90 | 31.0 | |
| Do not know | 14 | 4.9 | |
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| Did you face infection during abortion? | Yes | 87 | 30.0 |
| No | 203 | 70.0 | |
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| Did you face bleeding during abortion? | Yes | 15 | 5.1 |
| No | 275 | 94.9 | |
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| Type of procedure | Medication | 156 | 53.8 |
| Instrument | 134 | 46.2 | |
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| If your partner does not volunteer to use a condom, what would you do? | Stop sexual intercourse | 222 | 52.6 |
| Try to convince them to use condom | 177 | 41.9 | |
| Practice sexual intercourse without using condom | 23 | 5.5 | |