Provision of care to diverse populations: results from the 2019 Canadian Abortion Provider Survey

The WHO highlighted the importance of providing culturally safe, high-quality healthcare,1 emphasising that services should be welcoming to diverse populations, including “youth and people from sexual and gender minorities, people living with disabilities, and all groups in vulnerable and marginalised situations”.

We conducted the 2019 Canadian Abortion Provider Survey (CAPS), collecting demographics, clinical abortion practices, and stigma experiences of providers.2 3 In this research letter we present how abortion providers cared for diverse populations and the related training they had received.

Physicians, nurse practitioners and abortion service administrators who provided abortion care in 2019 were eligible to participate. To explore dimensions of care provided to diverse populations, we asked multiple-choice and open-ended questions, including: Do you provide abortion care to diverse patient populations (eg, cultural/ethnic origins, gender/identity, etc.)? Do you adjust your abortion care to diverse patient populations? Have you ever had specific training for providing…

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