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Leticia Suárez-López1, Elvia de la Vara-Salazar1, Fátima Estrada2
1Reproductive Health Division, Center for Population Research, National Institute of Public Health. Mexico, Av. Universidad 655, Col. Santa María Ahuacatitlán, CP 62100, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Abstract:
Women need to receive accurate information on the proper use of contraceptive methods (CM). The objective of our analysis was to evaluate the quality of CM counseling in health institutions of the public sector using the Lot Quality Assurance Sampling (LQAS) technique. We specifically analyzed whether health-service providers informed CM users of all the side effects they might experience, as specified under the Mexican health-care regulations. Our results demonstrated that, among the four CM analyzed -the intrauterine device, hormonal injection, condom and subdermal implant- only the users of the subdermal implant received complete information on side effects. Our findings thus indicate that the quality of family planning services in the institutions analyzed is deficient. We recommend that service providers be regularly trained in order to improve their performance and that LQAS methodology be adopted as an effective means of regularly monitoring the quality of health services in Mexico.
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