Inhaltsübersicht

• Project team
• Client
• Research institutes
• Survey period
• Target group
• Sample
• Implementation
• Methods

 

Project team

Projekt management
Gunter Schmidt, Department of Sexual Research and Forensic Psychiatry, University of Hamburg;

Elke Thoss, CEO of pro familia

Contributors
Karin Block
Silja Matthiesen
Svenja Mix
Sigrid Weiser

 

Client

Bundeszentrale für gesundheitliche Aufklärung
Ostmerheimer Straße 220
51109 Köln
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)221 8992-0
Fax: +49 (0)221 8992-300

 

Research institutes

Institut für Sexualforschung und forensische Psychiatrie, Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Martinistrasse 52
20246 Hamburg
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)40 42803-0
Fax: +49 (0)40 42803-7769
www.uke.uni-hamburg.de

pro familia Bundesverband
Stresemannallee 3
60596 Frankfurt a.M.
Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)69 639002
Fax: +49 (0)69 639852
www.profamilia.de

 

Survey period

Quantitative studies:
(A) Core study (pro familia)
June 2005 – February 2006
(B) Validation study (Diakonie)
May 2007 – August 2007

Qualitative survey:
August 2005 – February 2007

 

Target group

Pregnant women under the age of 18

 

Sample

2,278 pregnant women under the age of 18 (quantitative survey)

62 women under the age of 18 after a termination, 11 partner after the termination of the women interviewed (qualitative survey)

 

Implementation

Core study: 138 of the 160 pro familia advice centres all over Germany

• Participation quota: 79% of all the pregnant women under the age of 18 who took advantage of an advice session during the survey period
• Type of counselling: 56% statutory pre-termination counselling, 33% general pregnancy counselling; 11% unclear
• Comprehensiveness: 20% of all women under the age of 18 nationwide, who became pregnant during the time of the survey

Validation survey: 223 of 273 counselling centres of the Diakonisches Werk of the Protestant church in Germany

• Participation quota: 81% of all the pregnant women under the age of 18 who took advantage of an advice session during the survey period
• Type of counselling: 51% statutory pre-termination counselling, 39% general pregnancy counselling, 10% unclear

Qualitative survey: 10 large counselling centres operated by pro familia (Kiel, Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin, Magdeburg, Leipzig, Bochum, Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Munich)

• Survey of 62 women under the age of 18 two to three months after a termination
• Additional survey of 11 partners of the women interviewed

 

Methods

Quantitative surveys: standardized documentation form

• Socio-demographic and biographical data
• Information about the partner
• Information about the circumstances surrounding the conception

Qualitative survey: guideline-supported interviews (25 face-to-face interviews; 37 telephone interviews)

• Reactions to the pregnancy
• Circumstances of the conception
• Decision-making processes and confl icts
• Experience of the termination and the termination care
• Sexual biography, contraceptive biography