Actitud ante el aborto terapéutico por causas infecciosas en estudiantes de la carrera de medicina de UNIANDES Ecuador 2022

Abstract

Infection is the third most common cause of pregnancy-related mortality worldwide, accounting for approximately 10.7% of pregnancy-related deaths in low- and middle-income countries, and 4.7% of all deaths in high-income countries. The incidence of puerperal sepsis has increased over the last decade, in some cases doubling with increasing rates of severe sepsis contributing to mortality. Faced with this situation, future new doctors must have clear concepts related to therapeutic abortion resulting from infections, since they could compromise the health of the pregnant patient and be accused of malpractice, and on the other hand, they must be attentive to the laws and policies of each country in order not to violate them. In this sense, a descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out between January and June 2022 on 105 medical students in the last years of their studies to find out the attitude of the students towards therapeutic abortion due to infection, through the application of 2 measurement instruments measurement. The first questionnaire is a Semantic Differential and the second questionnaire is a Likert Type Scale. The results revealed that the adjectives used in the Sematic Differential and Likert-type questionnaires showed a high development of the attitude of medical students related to the practice of therapeutic abortions, keeping in mind the health of the patient and being vigilant of the specific laws, in this case of Ecuador.