Clinical effects on long term users depo provera, oral contraceptives and intra uterine devices

ABSTRACT

An evaluation of the Jamaican Family Planning programme was undertaken specifically to assess the clinical effects of the oral contaceptive, depo-provera injection and the intra uterine contraceptive device on long term users. Two hundred and forty six patients participated in the study, and this number was made up of 86 users of the oral contraceptive, 82 users of the I.U.C.D. and 78 users of the depo-provera. Clinical examination elicited no complication outside those known to occur on the individual methods. A few interesting observations were high-lighted which may need further evaluation before any reasonable conclusions could be drawn from them (Summary)