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Why Do Family Planning Patients Drop Out?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2008

Audrey W. M. Ward
Audrey W. M. Ward
Affiliation:
Medical Care Research Unit, Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Sheffield
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In a sample of 165 FPA patients, 67% had stopped attending the clinic after 3 years. Half the loss could be accounted for by transfers, moves and ceasing to need contraception. The drop-out rate was not related to age, social class or number of children. Of the three methods generally pre scribed, the greatest attrition occurred amongst the cap patients. In a sample of twenty-seven LA patients, 48% had dropped out.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Biosocial Science , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 1971 , pp. 301 - 308
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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