High Prevalence of Abortion among Primigravida and Teen Aged Girls in the District of Purba Medinipur, West Bengal; India

There are limited data about abortion. We analyzed spontaneous and induced abortion data in terms of time, p ce and person and to find out association with socio-demographic determinants.

We collected data of abortion cases in a data collection format during the period of January 2012 to March 2013 of Purba Medinipur district, West Bengal; India. We described the distribution of study cases by time, place and person. We analyzed data in Epi-info software and calculated P value (<0.05 significant).

Among the total 3532 abortion cases, 53.8% (1900) were induced abortion and 46.2%(1632) were spontaneous abortion. Most of abortion cases were among age group of 20–29 years 61.2% (2202) followed by 12–19 years age (teen age) 31.5% (1135). Maximum abortion revealed among low group income people 67% (2439). Of total abortion cases, sixth to ten standard educated women had 55.2% (1985) followed by illiterate to 5^th standard educated were 37.4% (1346). Among them 51.3% (1845) were primigravida and 48.7% (1752) were multigravida. One case was died (Case Fatality Ratio=28.31/100, 000). Induced abortion was associated with higher education and higher income group population, P <0.0001 and P <0.001 respectively. The most of the abortion were done at 3^rd to 12^th week of pregnancy 56.9% (2046) followed by 13^th to 20^th week of gestation 32.9% (1185).

Induced abortion was common among higher educated and higher income population. Abortion among teen aged girl may be addressed by social counseling and sex education and law.