Results
3.1. Participants’ demographics
Of the 692 questionnaires distributed, 655 were returned. The
response rate was 94.6%. The mean age, gravidity and parity of the
patient group were 27.48 6.25 years (range 16–48 years),
2.81 2.15 (range 1–12) and 1.40 1.77 (range 0–11) respectively.
Of 655 pregnant women, 29.2% were nulliparous. Approximately two
thirds of the participants lived in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey,
and the vast majority of them (96.2%) had health insurance.
In the study population, while 80.2% of the women reported
that the current pregnancy was desired, one-fifth (19.8%) of them
reported the current pregnancy as unintended with a concomitant
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