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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Reprod. Health
Sec. Adolescent Reproductive Health and Well-being
Volume 6 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/frph.2024.1400359
This article is part of the Research Topic Sexuality education that prioritizes sexual well-being: Initiatives and impact View all 9 articles

Women's satisfaction with comprehensive abortion care services and associated factors in Central Gondar Zone public primary hospitals, Northwest Ethiopia, 2023

Provisionally accepted

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    Background: Abortion complications are the leading causes of maternal death in low and middle-income countries, including Ethiopia. Providing quality and comprehensive abortion care services is crucial for improving the health of women and increasing their satisfaction. Evaluating a client's satisfaction with health services is clinically relevant, as women's satisfaction with abortion care is one of the key indicators of highquality healthcare services. Therefore, this study aimed to assess women's satisfaction with comprehensive abortion care services and associated factors.Zone public primary hospitals from October 1, 2022, to April 30, 2023. Eligible participants were selected using a systematic random sampling technique. The data were collected by using an interviewer-administered semi-structured, pretested questionnaire and then entered into STATA version 17 and analyzed using SPSS version 25 software. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression models were used to identify factors associated with clients' satisfaction with comprehensive abortion care services. A P-value of ≤ 0.05 with a 95% confidence interval was the cutoff point for determining statistical significance.Results: This study revealed that the level of client satisfaction with comprehensive abortion care services was 60.4% (95% CI: 55.0%, 66.0%). The use of abortion medication (AOR = 4.41, 95% CI: 2.59, 7.48), women's age 20-24 years (AOR = 2.94, 95% CI: 1.02, 8.48), and being a student (AOR = 2.88, 95% CI: 1.10, 7.51) were found to be significantly associated with women's satisfaction with comprehensive abortion care services.The level of client satisfaction with the comprehensive abortion care services was found to be low and strongly correlated with abortion medication, being a student, and women's age of between 20 and 24 years. To improve women's satisfaction with abortion treatment and promote health requires a comprehensive understanding of women's values and perspectives, sexual and reproductive health education, the application of a holistic approach, and quality abortion care services.

    Keywords: Abortion care service, Client satisfaction, Sexual and reproductive health, Public hospital, Ethiopia

    Received: 13 Mar 2024; Accepted: 30 Aug 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Solomon Tibebu, Alemu, Rade, Kassie, Mihret, Bicha and Muluye. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Getachew Muluye, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Gondar, Gondar, Ethiopia

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