Questions
1 Does the process for identification of women who have had an abortion by using community and women’s groups and formal and informal health workers as information sources properly ensure confidentiality?
2 Should oral consent substitute for written consent in a population in which illiteracy is common and people are reluctant to put any signature or identifying mark on a written document that they might not understand?
3 Will the interview process adequately protect privacy? Comment on the procedures that are designed to protect the women who had consented to be interviewed at the time they underwent an abortion (dummy interviews in the community, clustering of interviews, and dummy interviews with other family members during the interview with the woman).
4 What additional measures might be used to protect interviewees from the possibility of unwanted attention?
S Is this method of recruitment of “abortion seekers” appropriate and free of coercion?
