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 method) 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 choice of the medical method. There were also more working women in this medical group. Previous experience of induced abortion had no influence on the current choice of the abortion method. This group of women appeared to have a tendency of treating their disease with medication rather than with surgery if the condition would allow. They expressed fear about surgery. The long induction-abortion interval of three days will have to be tolerated, but the duration of bleeding should be minimised in order to improve the acceptability of the drug. RU486 is an alternative abortion method which should be made widely available.