Objective: To compare women's acceptance of misoprostol-only medical termination of pregnancy (TOP) with surgical TOP.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Setting: Termination of pregnancy clinics in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hanoi, Tbilisi, Trivandrum and Yerevan.
Population: Women requesting TOP, at 63 days of gestation or less, at study sites where both medical and surgical methods were available.
Methods: Serial surveys eliciting measures of women's satisfaction and acceptance of TOP method were administered. Data were analysed using cross-tabulation and logistic regression to determine if TOP method was predictive of acceptability.
Main outcome measures: Patient acceptance.
Results: High acceptability of both surgical and misoprostol-only TOP.
Conclusions: Where medical TOP with mifepristone is not available, misoprostol-only medical TOP is acceptable to women who have the choice between medical or surgical techniques.
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