Quality of life among women with induced abortion in Nanjing city

Objective To examine changes in quality of life and its potential influencing factors among the women after induced abortion.Methods A self-designed questionnaire and European Quality of Life 5-Dimensions(EQ-5D)were used to investigate 361 women with induced abortion before and after the operation in Zhongda Hospital in Nanjing city.Potential influencing factors on quality of life among the women were analyzed with multivariate linear regression.Results The women were at an average age of 30.21±6.44 years and 70.6%of them(235/361)were married.Repeat abortion rate among the women was 65.1%(235/361).Visual Analogue Scale(VAS)scores were 88.60±11.02 before the abortion and 93.74±9.09 after the abortion and EQ-5D scores were 0.84±0.15 and 0.97±0.08,respectively, among the women.Both EQ-5D score and VAS score were significantly increased after the abortion(P=0.000).Married women and the women with higher educaiton level had higher scores of quality of life before the abortion,however the differences in the scores before and after abortion were less than those in the unmarried women and the women with low educational(P<0.05).The women with more abortions or realizing adverse effect of abortion had the biggest changes in the scores before and after the abortion(P<0.05).Conclusion Induced abortion could reduce the quality of life of the women and it is necessary for the women of childbearing age to acquire the knowledge about pregnancy and health.