Time-related change in the consciousness about birth control and contraception in Japanese women between the modern and present times

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The contraception rate among Japanese women gets no further than the level of 50%, which is lower than those in advanced western countries at the present time. Reflecting this fact, in 2004, about 300,000 cases were put into operation of artificial abortion in Japan. Because woman’s sexual consciousness and behaviors change with the lapse of times,it is considered that a research on a time?related change in the consciousness about the birth control and contraception might help to construct educational methods facilitating self?determination in reproduction in Japanese women. Under these situations,a bibliographical study was conducted to clarify the time?related change in the consciousness about the birth control and contraception in Japanese women focusing on the modern to present times. Date extracted from a total of 25 books was analyzed referring to diagnostic steps in a precede?proceed model. Our analysis showed that this change is divided into four stages, that is,the indifferent stage in the earlier times grows up gradually with the times to the germinal stage and then,after experience of the confusion stage,Japanese women face currently to the developmental stage

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