Knowledge and Attitude on Legalization of Abortion among Undergraduate Students

Ojha, Sanjay Kumar; Silwal, Muna

doi:10.3126/jgmcn.v10i2.20809

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“…The result is comparable with a study done in Nepal which shows that most 88 (97.80%) of the respondents mentioned that Government approved Hospitals/clinics are the best place for providing abortion services. [10] This finding is also supported by a study done in Nepal where 84(68.9%) respondents stated that hospitals are the appropriate place for safe abortion. [15] A study done in Rajasthan, India among women who came for medical termination of pregnancy in a medical college revealed contradictory finding where 100(58%) of the respondents knew that safe abortions were performed at government approved institutions.…”

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confidence: 58%

“…This finding is supported with the study conducted in Nepal among undergraduate students where, majority 75 (83.30%) respondents had correct knowledge on legally allowed time for safe abortion. [10] Another study also revealed the consistent finding where majority respondents 89 (73.0%) had correct knowledge that a pregnant woman can terminate pregnancy on her own will up to 12 weeks of gestation. [15] Regarding the especial condition that allowed for safe abortion, this study noted that among the respondents 195(62.9%) responded as when the life of woman or fetus are threatened followed by 163(52.6%) pregnancy resulted from incest or rape, 136(43.9%) if woman has physical or mental disabilities and 111(35.8%) if fetus has severe abnormalities.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…This finding is higher than a study performed among undergraduate students in Nepal, where nearly half 90 (41.90%) respondents said that trained health care providers are required for safe abortion procedure. [10] In contrast to this finding a study done in India showed that 38(38%) of respondent knew that safe abortion procedures should be done by trained doctors. [18] The dissimilarities in the findings might be due to change in the time period and increase in the knowledge level with awareness through mass media like television, newspaper and online health message.…”

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confidence: 86%

“…This finding were supported with the studies done in Pokhara, Nepal and Bhaktpur Nepal where 90(100%) and 59(56.2%) respectively correctly answered safe abortion as abortion done under legal condition. [10,11] This study showed that all of respondents agreed that safe abortion services are necessary among reproductive age group 204(65.8%) said safe abortion is necessary to save the life of mother. Difference in result is found in the study conducted in Ethiopia where 313(74.1%) agreed its necessity and 79 (25.23%) answered safe abortion is necessary to save the life of mother.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Knowledge and Attitude towards Safe Abortion among Undergraduate Students in Jana Bhawana Campus, Lalitpur, Nepal

Ghimire

Nepal

Shrestha

2021

Int J Health Sci Res

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Background: Unsafe abortion is one of the health issue of the reproductive age women. In spite of abortion legalization, woman’s access to safe abortion is based on the knowledge related to safe abortion. Knowledge is essential part which equip women to get services and prevent from complications of unsafe abortion. Materials and methods: A descriptive cross sectional study was conducted with the objective to identify the knowledge and attitude on safe abortion among bachelor level student. Non probability total enumerative sampling technique was used to select the sample. Total of 310 respondents were included in the study. The structured pretested questionnaire was used to collect data. Pearson chi-square was used to find out the association between demographic variables and knowledge on safe abortion. Result: The result of the study showed that among the respondents majority 247(79.7%) were ≥20 years of age with mean age 21.4 years with SD 1.9. More than half 173(55.8) of respondents were female. Majority 193(62.3%) of the respondents had fair knowledge and nearly half of the respondents 154(49.7%) had positive attitude regarding safe abortion. Respondents’ knowledge on safe abortion were not significantly associated with their age, gender, marital status, ethnicity, type of family, area of residence and living arrangement. Conclusion: Despite having fair level of knowledge among majority of respondents, it is seen that half of the respondents had negative attitude towards safe abortion. This shows that there is a need for educational intervention among undergraduate students in order to change their attitude. Key words: Attitude, Knowledge, Safe Abortion, Undergraduate Students.

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Section: Level Of Attitudesupporting

confidence: 58%

Section: Level Of Attitudementioning

confidence: 71%

Section: Level Of Attitudementioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Level Of Attitudementioning

confidence: 98%

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Knowledge and Attitude towards Safe Abortion among Undergraduate Students in Jana Bhawana Campus, Lalitpur, Nepal

Ghimire

Nepal

Shrestha

2021

Int J Health Sci Res

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“…The study reveals that 94.4% of the students had the good knowledge regarding the abortion. 8 The knowledge about the abortion of present study was higher than the finding of Gyawali et al 9 where it was 78.4%.…”

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confidence: 72%

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Abortion in Slum Area of Kathmandu

Manandhar

Pokhrel²,

Yadav³

et al. 2021

JCMC

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Background: Abortion is legal up to 12 weeks’ gestation period in Nepal. Due to a lack of proper abortion services and socio cultural stigma, every year many women died due to abortion. The aim of this study was to asses the knowledge, attitude and practice of abortion in the residents of slum area of Kathmandu district. Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted in slum area of Kathmandu district from 20th December, 2020 to 15th January, 2021. The sample size was 255 and convenient sampling technique was used to select the participant aged above 15years. The collected data were enter in MS excel and analysis was performed using SPSS version 22. Results: The prevalence of abortion was 25.27%.The level of knowledge was found significant with education status. Age, marital status, ethnicity were found significant with attitude of the respondents. Ten percentages of the female respondents had done unsafe abortion. The complications after abortion were the bleeding (54.3%), trauma (15.20%), loss of consciousness (13.0%) and abdominal pain (2.20%). Conclusions: The level of knowledge of participants of the present study found to be satisfactory but attitude was less satisfactory with compared to the knowledge about the abortion.

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Knowledge, Attitude and Associated Factors Toward Ethiopian Abortion Law Among Reproductive Age Women in Bule Hora Town, Southern Oromia, Ethiopia, 2022

Wayessa,

Boneya,

Hadona

2023

Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology

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Objectives A woman's health and wellbeing are impacted by illegal abortion since improper procedures can lead to consequences like extreme bleeding, infection, and damage to the reproductive organs and low awareness and attitude toward abortion law is one of the public health problems in Ethiopia. This study aimed to assess the knowledge, and attitude, and identify the effect of short birth interval and wealth index on the abortion law among reproductive-age women in Bule Hora town, Southern Oromia, Ethiopia. Methods A community-based cross-sectional study design was conducted from June 20 to July 20, 2022. A systematic random sampling technique was carried out to select 402 reproductive-age women. Data was collected by using a structured questionnaire with face-to-face interviews after the tools were pretested. The data was cleaned, coded, and entered into Epidata 3.1 and exported to STATA 14 for analysis. The model goodness of fit was checked using the Hosmer-Lemeshow test. Statistical significance is declared at P < .05 and a 95% confidence interval. Results The study revealed that 153 (38%) of respondents had good knowledge and 192 (47%) had a favorable attitude toward the Ethiopian abortion law, with a 100% response rate. Women's educational status, having information regarding the criteria of legal abortion services, and short birth intervals as a reason for induced abortion were significantly associated with knowledge. On the other hand, women who attended secondary education and above, have information regarding the criteria of legal abortion services, wealth index middle/average and richer, using the contraceptive method, and short birth interval as a reason for induced abortion were predictors of attitude toward Ethiopian abortion law. Conclusion This study shows that knowledge and attitude toward Ethiopian abortion law was not sufficient. So focusing on awareness creation and health education strategies by mobilization of the community to minimize the knowledge and attitude gap is essential.

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Knowledge and Attitude on Legalization of Abortion among Undergraduate Students

Abstract: Background: Abortion is public health concern in many parts of the world and is also contentious issue with religious, moral, cultural and political dimensions. Awareness program has most essential role to prevent the unusual death of mothers in the world.

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Knowledge and Attitude towards Safe Abortion among Undergraduate Students in Jana Bhawana Campus, Lalitpur, Nepal

Knowledge and Attitude towards Safe Abortion among Undergraduate Students in Jana Bhawana Campus, Lalitpur, Nepal

Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of Abortion in Slum Area of Kathmandu

Knowledge, Attitude and Associated Factors Toward Ethiopian Abortion Law Among Reproductive Age Women in Bule Hora Town, Southern Oromia, Ethiopia, 2022

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