Table 5

Women's perceptions of pregnancy continuation and how they assessed the completeness of the abortion process

Among women who completed both follow-up interviews (n=394)
%n
Women who reported that they were no longer pregnant at the time of the second follow-up interview95.4376
 Reasons given for believing pregnancy has ended (n=376)*
  Woman's period returned.53.7202
  Woman took a urine pregnancy test at home.33.2125
  Woman no longer has pregnancy symptoms.24.793
  Woman took a blood pregnancy test.16.060
  Woman passed the products of conception.13.350
  Woman took a urine pregnancy test at a facility.5.119
  Woman had a sonogram/ultrasound.4.015
  Woman got cleaned at a facility/surgical intervention.1.97
  Other.0.83
Women who reported a complete abortion without surgical intervention93.7369
  • *Multiple responses were allowed.