Social stigma and disclosure about induced abortion

Results from an exploratory study

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ID15540319
AutoresKristen M Shellenberg (autor correspondente), Alison M Moore (0000-0002-6914-1974, Guttmacher Institute), Akinrinola Bankole (0000-0003-3220-9477, Guttmacher Institute), Fatima Juárez (0000-0003-4114-6439, El Colegio de México), Adekunbi Kehinde Omideyi (Obafemi Awolowo University), Nancy Palomino (0000-0001-8996-6300, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia), Zeba A Sathar (Pakistan Health Research Council), Susheela Singh (0000-0001-9108-6206, Guttmacher Institute), Amy O Tsui (0000-0001-9158-0503, Johns Hopkins University)
Ano2011
Volume6
Fascículosup1
PáginasS111-S125
Data de publicação2011-07-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoGlobal Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1744-1692 • E-ISSN: 1744-1706
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17441692.2011.594072
PMID21745033
OpenAlexW2005224209
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas73
Referências citadas15

It is well recognised that unsafe abortions have significant implications for women's physical health; however, women's perceptions and experiences with abortion-related stigma and disclosure about abortion are not well understood. This paper examines the presence and intensity of abortion stigma in five countries, and seeks to understand how stigma is perceived and experienced by women who terminate an unintended pregnancy and influences her subsequent disclosure behaviours. The paper is based upon focus groups and semi-structured in-depth interviews conducted with women and men in Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru and the United States (USA) in 2006. The stigma of abortion was perceived similarly in both legally liberal and restrictive settings although it was more evident in countries where abortion is highly restricted. Personal accounts of experienced stigma were limited, although participants cited numerous social consequences of having an abortion. Abortion-related stigma played an important role in disclosure of individual abortion behaviour

Abortion · Developing country · Economic growth · Environmental health · Exploratory research · Family medicine · Family planning · Focus group · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Political science · Population · Pregnancy · Psychiatry · Reproductive health · Research methodology · Social issues · Social stigma · Sociology · Stigma (botany · Unintended pregnancy · Unsafe abortion · Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health · Global Maternal and Child Health · Medicine · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Contraception · Social Psychology