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Table 4 Pregnancies occurring within one year of an invitation to attend PCC.

From: Preconception counselling initiated by general practitioners in the Netherlands: reaching couples contemplating pregnancy [ISRCTN53942912]

Year of invitation

2000

2001

2002

Number of pregnancies

797

513

182

Review of population by GP

   

   Women included

567 (71%)

296 (58%)

122 (67%)

   Women excluded

230 (29%)

217 (42%)

60 (33%)

Response of included women

   

   Yes

349 (44%)

168 (33%)

99 (54%)

   No

218 (27%)

128 (25%)

23 (13%)

Interest in PCC of responders

   

   Yes

246 (31%)

119 (23%)

74 (40%)

   No

103 (13%)

49 (10%)

25 (14%)

Desire to become pregnant of interested responders

   

   Within one year

166 (21%)

81 (16%)

51 (27%)

   Between one and five years

42 (5%)

23 (4%)

18 (10%)

   Term unknown

35 (4%)

14 (3%)

5 (3%)

   No desire for children, or for more children

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

0 (0%)

   Pregnant

3 (1%)

1 (0%)

0 (0%)

Attended PCC before pregnancy

60 (8%)

48 (9%)

36 (20%)

  1. ||Because data were not collected over the total year in 2002, the reported number of pregnancies within that year was less than in the other years.