Organon discovers pill confusion

Organon Laboratories, the prescription medicine creator and marketer, has found that over 80 per cent of women do not know how to take the pill properly.

The alarming research by the company showed that over eight out of ten women taking the progestogen-only pill were unaware that the medication has to be taken within three hours of the same time every day for it to work fully as intended.

Organon generated the results from a ten-country online survey, encompassing women between the ages of 16 and 40 from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom and the United States.

The survey found that the average time window given by mini-Pill users was 8.3 hours, meaning a large amount of women could be running the risk of unplanned pregnancy.

Research also revealed that 44 per cent of women use the pill with 85 per cent of progestogen pill users unaware that the window for taking that particular type of pill is just three hours.

A quarter of all pill users (progestogen-only and combined) did not think it mattered when they took their pill.

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