Fig 1.
Modified gestational dating wheel.
To use the wheel, turn the wheel until the arrow points at the first day of the woman’s reported LMP, then find the current date on the wheel. If the date is in the green zone (here, from May 15 to July 15) the woman is eligible for MA based on the gestational age of the pregnancy (< 63 days). If the date is in the red zone, she is not eligible. (Note: the version used in the study included the Nepali calendar and all instructions written in in Nepali).
Fig 2.
The user answers the questions in order. The first portion of this worksheet is intended to be used with the gestational dating wheel (see Fig 1). The second portion is the eligibility checklist. A response in a red area for any question indicates that the woman requires further evaluation prior to MA.
Table 1.
Participant sociodemographic data.
Table 2.
Women’s self-assessments of their overall eligibility, eligibility based on gestational age determination using the dating wheel, and medical eligibility using the checklist for MA drug use compared to CAC-provider’s determinations of their eligibility based on standard of care.
Fig 3.
Clinical risk for the 482 women (15% of n = 3113) who were determined to be ineligible for medical abortion by comprehensive abortion care providers.
Table 3.
Contraindications and cautions (conditions that require further evaluation by a CAC-provider before MA drug use) reported by women or determined by CAC-provider (n = 42a).
Table 4.
FCHV’s assessments of a woman’s overall eligibility, eligibility based on gestational age determination using the dating wheel, and medical eligibility using the checklist for MA drug use compared to CAC-provider’s determinations of their eligibility based on standard of care.