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Women's reasons for continuing with an unwanted pregnancy: a systematic review protocol
Alanny Moutinho1, Pedro Aguiar1, Maria Helena Presado2
1NOVA National School of Public Health, Public Health Research Centre, Comprehensive Health Research Center, NOVA University Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Objective:
This study (PROSPERO CRD42024515910) explores the issue of unwanted pregnancy in a broad context, to show current data on women's reasons for continuing with an unwanted pregnancy, even if they live where abortion is legal.
Method:
We will use the following databases: PubMed, Scopus, Web of Science, CINAHL, and LILACS, from 2019, combining controlled descriptors in natural and indexed language. We will consider qualitative and quantitative data. For qualitative analysis, we will use thematic categories, and for quantitative analysis, we will analyze two perspectives: the decision, separating those who want to continue the pregnancy and those who want to terminate the pregnancy, and the access, analyzing what happened to those who did not have the abortion and what happened to those who terminated the pregnancy. Finally, we will combine the results through a convergent synthesis and identify the determinants of the decision to continue with an unwanted pregnancy.
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