[Contraception and its effect on the quality of prenatal care].

Abstract

Out of a total of 618 followed-up pregnant women, 154 (24.91%) had never used contraception, while 464 (75.08%) had used it until the pregnancy at the time of this study. Among those who came to the first examination only after the 12th week of pregnancy there were 21.98% of the users and as many as 68.83% of the nonusers of contraception. Five or fewer examinations during pregnancy were performed in 11.63% of the users and in 41.55% of the non-users of contraception. There were 9.48% of the users and 27.27% of the non-users of contraception who did not attend prenatal consultation courses. These three parameters were applied for assessing the quality of prenatal care. A better quality of prenatal care in the users of contraception could be explained by their greater concern for the problems of reproduction.