Planned Abortion Post COVID-19

Abstract

Reproductive health policies, focused on the decriminalization of abortion, have effects on the beliefs, attitudes, intentions, and behaviors of termination of pregnancy. As women get older, more educated and more income, they rationally choose an abortion, but they move away from the ideal age for procreation of 22 years. The objective of the present work is to establish the exploratory factor structure of scales that measure four factors and 28 indicators (seven for each factor) related to the termination of pregnancy. Consequently, a non-experimental, cross-sectional and exploratory study was carried out with a non-probabilistic selection of 100 students. From a structural model the intentions determined the behaviors, but the factor solution was explained by beliefs. However, the context, sample selection, and type of analysis precludes generalizing the data to other settings. It is recommended to carry out a confirmatory factor analysis with a probabilistic selection of the sample in the local population.