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An Analysis Of The Increase In Mortality Rate As A Result Of Abortion Among Young Women Of Childbearing Age
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1.5 Significance of the study
Findings of this study will be of immense benefit to doctors/nurses and
all health workers, students and married women.To doctors/nurses, it
will help them understand the reasons why women submit to abortions of
any kind. This will provide information for the development of
information education and communication (IEC) materials to effectively
educate women and general public on abortion in general and the dangers
of illegal abortions.
To students, it will enable them to understand
why they should not indulge in abortion because of the short and long
term complications and dangers associated with it. It will also enable
them know the relationship between abortion and infertility.
To
married women, the study will enlighten them on the consequences of
abortion and equally provide hope for those who are already victims as
new methods of achieving pregnancy/fertility are made known to them.
1.6 Delimitation of the study
This
study is limited in the scope to abortion and effect on the health of
women of childbearing age (15-45 years). It is also limited in scope to
Big Qua Community in Calabar Municipal Area in Cross River State.
It
is also limited to three major types of abortion which were adopted as
sub-variables for this study as follows: threatened abortion, criminal
abortion and septic abortion.
1.7 Limitations of the study
In
any meaningful undertaking, there are some problems that can hinder the
speedy and successful completion of such a task. Therefore, major
limiting factors in this work were ; the short time allotted for the
completion of the work and the uncooperative attitude of some
respondents to provide the researcher with necessary information. Since
the researcher topic has some social implications.
1.8 Definition of terms
For easy understanding of some medical terms used in this work, there is need to define them to ease clarification:
Infertility: the inability of a couple to bear a living child despite
living together and having unprotected sexual intercourse and wishing to
have a child for at least one year
Abortion: Is the termination of pregnancy before the embryo/feotus (baby in the womb) attain the age of viability (maturity)
Threatened abortion: The condition in pregnancy before the 20th week
marked by bleeding and cramping uterus sufficient to suggest that
miscarriage may result.
Criminal abortion: Illegal termination of pregnancy
Septic abortion: Is a form of miscarriage that is associated with a serious uterine infection
Fertility: The ability to procreate.
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