Methods
We conducted a mixed-method study analysing the requests received by
Women on Web (WoW), an international organization providing medical
abortion services, from Turkey between 1 January 2013 and 12 October
2020. Our dataset includes anonymized responses of 620 women to the
online consultation survey and anonymized email correspondence of 138
women with the WoW help desk. We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of
the survey data and a content analysis of email correspondence to
analyse perceived barriers to formal abortion services in Turkey and to
examine women’s motivations in requesting medical abortion from the WoW
website.
The WoW consultation survey consists of 25 questions that can be found
on the WoW website homepage. The consultation process has been described
in previous studies (7,8). As a part of the WoW consultation survey,
women were asked for consent for their data to be used anonymously in
research (8). The cross-sectional analysis was conducted on SAS 9.4.