FURTHER ACCEPTABILITY EVALUATION OF RU486 AND ONO-802 AS ABORTIFACIENT AGENTS IN A CHINESE POPULATION

Of 144 consecutive women who requested early induced abortion, 99 (68. 7%) and 45 (31.3%) women chose RU486 combined with ONO 802 (medical me thod) and suction evacuation (surgical method), respectively. Logistic regression analysis of covariates showed that age and marital status were significantly correlated with the acceptability and hence the cho ice of the medical method. There were also more working women in this medical group. Previous experience of induced abortion had no influenc e on the current choice of the abortion method. This group of women ap peared to have a tendency of treating their disease with medication ra ther than with surgery if the condition would allow. They expressed fe ar about surgery. The long induction-abortion interval of three days w ill have to be tolerated, but the duration of bleeding should be minim ised in order to improve the acceptability of the drug. RU486 is an al ternative abortion method which should be made widely available.