Women attending regional public healthcare clinics for non-gynecologic conditions, and female members of staff from university schools unrelated to the field of medicine completed a questionnaire.
Of the 1111 women interviewed, 64.3%reported disliking menstruation. The desired frequency of bleeding was never (65.3%), less than monthly (18.2%), and every month or more often (16.5%). More than 60%of the women reported that they would use COCs to control menstrual bleeding, 82.0%would use COCs to reduce the amount of bleeding experienced, and 86.1%would use COCs to induce amenorrhea. When compared with women who disliked menstruation, those who reported that they liked to experience monthly bleeding had fewer years of schooling (OR1.98; 95%CI, 1.30-2.97), low socioeconomic status (OR 1.66; 95%CI, 1.12-2.46), fewer days of menstruation each month (OR 1.62; 95%CI, 1.11-2.36), and 1 or more child (OR 1.13; 95%CI, 1.01-1.26).
Many of the women surveyed disliked monthly menstruation and were interested in the use of COCs to control menstrual bleeding and induce amenorrhea.