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Article: Half of Bangladeshi women who discontinue pill use attribute their decision to side effects. (Digests).(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- International Family Planning Perspectives
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Side effects are the most common reason cited by Bangladeshi women who stop using oral contraceptives, according to a survey of rural women with recent experience with the pill. (1) Fifty-three percent of women who had discontinued oral contraceptive use attributed their decision to side effects, while 21% cited the desire for a child. In a multivariate analysis that confirmed the importance of side effects, pill discontinuation was also significantly more common among women who were Muslims, those who had used some other method before the pill, those who had not been visited by a family planning fieldworker and those who were not supported by their husband in their ...