ArticleContraception2019
"It's not something you talk about really": information barriers encountered by women who travel long distances for abortion care.
Article in Contraception, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Abortion stigma among people seeking abortion care in high-income countries: a mixed-methods systematic review.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2025Pooled it
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- Abortion care over 20 weeks gestation: a psychosocial exploration of patient experiences at the Royal Women's Hospital, Victoria, Australia.Reproductive health · 2025Article
- The importance of early and accurate service information for young people accessing gender care.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- "I'm Pregnant, What Do I Do?": Exploring How People Having Abortions in Britain Find and Use Online Sources of Information.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2025Article
- Using Natural Language Processing to Describe the Use of an Online Community for Abortion During 2022: Dynamic Topic Modeling Analysis of Reddit Posts.JMIR infodemiology · 2025Article
- Abortion access barriers shared in "r/abortion" afterSexual and reproductive health matters · 2024Article
- Narratives of pregnancy across 19 Countries: Analysis of a 1.5-billion-word news media database.PloS one · 2024Article
- "I wasn't sure it would work. I was just trying": an ethnographic study on the choice of abortion methods among young women in Kilifi County, Kenya, and Atlantique Department, Benin.Reproductive health · 2023Article
- Reach, experience, and acceptability of an abortion self-care intervention in Bolivia: a mixed-methods evaluation.Sexual and reproductive health matters · 2023Article
- Understanding Women's Communication with Their Providers During Medication Abortion and Abortion Pill Reversal: An Exploratory Analysis.The Linacre quarterly · 2023Article
- Information flow as reproductive governance. Patient journey analysis of information barriers and facilitators to abortion care in the republic of Ireland.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Willing but unable: Physicians' referral knowledge as barriers to abortion care.SSM - population health · 2022Article
- Health needs of women victims of sexual violence in search for legal abortion.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2022Article
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- Shining the light on abortion: Drivers of online abortion searches across the United States in 2018.PloS one · 2020Article
- Developing and validating the Psychosocial Burden among people Seeking Abortion Scale (PB-SAS).PloS one · 2020Article
- Breaking the silence in the primary care office: patients' attitudes toward discussing abortion during contraceptive counseling.Contraception: X · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectiveFor individuals traveling significant distances for time-sensitive abortion care, accurate information about service options and locations is critical, but little is known regarding information barriers that individuals may encounter and strategies for circumventing these barriers. STUDY
designIn early 2015, we conducted in-depth interviews with 29 patients who had traveled for abortion care at six facilities in Michigan and New Mexico. We identified information-related barriers that respondents encountered in understanding their pregnancy options and/or where to obtain an abortion between the time of pregnancy discovery, including any contact with a crisis pregnancy center, to the day of the abortion procedure through inductive and deductive analysis.
resultsWe identified two logistical information-related barriers - a general lack of reproductive-related knowledge and unhelpfulness on the part of perceived members of the healthcare community - and one broader barrier of perceived stigma within respondents' narratives. Of the seven respondents who did not encounter a logistical information-related barrier, having previous personal or close experience with abortion and internet savviness were both identified as strategies enabling them to circumvent the barriers.
conclusionLack of clear, easy-to-find and accurate information about abortion services and availability represents a key barrier to obtaining an abortion; health care providers play a crucial role in ensuring pregnant patients' right to informed consent within reproductive health care delivery. IMPLICATIONS: Women's health care providers should provide their patients with the full spectrum of resources and referrals for pregnancy and abortion care; recent federal guidelines proposing to restrict abortion counseling and referral at Title X-funded facilities would only exacerbate the current challenges that pregnant patients encounter when seeking abortion-related information and further decrease linkages to timely, desired abortion care.
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