Special Incentive Program에 의한 자궁내장치 삽입 부인의 중요사회 인구학적 특성에 관한 연구

Abstract

I. Introduct ion The present paper describes the findings and experiences obtained by the Urban Population Studies Center, College of Medicine, Seoul National Universit y. from a prournm named, "Special Incentive Program," or more specifically, a program promoting acceptance of intra uterine contrncept ivc loops thro-ugh referral agents who are on special incentives. Data have been collected from 502 women residing in Chunho Dong, Sun!~'dong Gu, Seoul Citv who accepted insertion of IUD during the period from July 1969 to June H;70. The referral agents consist of midwives, nurses in obstetrical and gynecological clinics and ph:lrmaceucists(9 agents in total). II. Basic Characteristics of IUD Acceptors Women with the following social ane! demographic charactcrist ics h:1\'P select ivi-lv acrepted IUD Ihrough this program: 1. Women in the ages 25-34 (67 per cent of all acceptors) 2. Women who belong to lower cducnt ional st rarn, namely those who have had no formal education and with only primary school education (totaling 83 per cent of all acceptors) 3. Women having experienced prior to acceptance of IUD an average 4 pregnancies. 4. Women experiencing 2 live-births (64 per cent) and 3 Iivebirths. 5. Women with 2 living children (62 per cent), the average numher of living children being 3. O. 6. Women with an experience of induced abortion (44 per cent). This percentage is much higher than women in the reproductive ages residing in the same area, having the same experience (30 per cent). The women under the Special Incentive Program have experienced an average of O. 8 abortions induced. 7. Women having married at an average of 21.7 years. General women in reproductive ages in the same area have married at an average age of 20. 2. 8. A great majority of the women under this program (74 per cent) had been married for five years or longer. The average for duration of marriage was calculated at 8.9 years, 1II. Family Planning Practices Prior to Acceptance Only 8 among 502 women accepting IUDs through this program arc found to have used one or more kinds of contraceptive methods, prior to the acceptance uf IUD. Of these. 6 women were using traditional methods of contraception, while only 2 women had experience of using IUD before accepting it throug h the "i ncentive" program. IV. Other Findings The cross tabulations containcd in the Korean text are intended to show the interrelations between such experiences as marriage, pregnancy and delivery and abortions spontaneous or induced and age of women at acceptance of IUD and education, etc. On account, however, of the limitation in the size of the - 5 6 base for this study and also of the unavailability of data for "general" women processed in the same way to permit cornparisions, much of the information presented here remains to be compared with pertinent data, when they are made available.