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Alvarez, J., (2015). Actitudes y conocimientos frente al aborto en estudiantes de la E.A.P de Obstetricia de la Facultad de Medicina de San Fernando.UNMSM-2014 [Tesis, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos]. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4425
Alvarez, J., Actitudes y conocimientos frente al aborto en estudiantes de la E.A.P de Obstetricia de la Facultad de Medicina de San Fernando.UNMSM-2014 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos; 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12672/4425
@misc{renati/478893,
title = "Actitudes y conocimientos frente al aborto en estudiantes de la E.A.P de Obstetricia de la Facultad de Medicina de San Fernando.UNMSM-2014",
author = "Alvarez Yauri, Juan Gabriel",
publisher = "Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos",
year = "2015"
}
--- OBJECTIVE: Determine the attitudes and knowledge regarding abortion EAP students of midwifery faculty of medicine at San Fernando. San Marcos, December 2014 period. METHODOLOGY: An observational, descriptive, prospective, cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of students por175 obstetrics obstetrics EAP San Marcos. A questionnaire on attitudes and knowledge regarding abortion from the review of studies related to the subject, the same as was validated by expert judgment (binomial test) and pilot (Cronbach's alpha) was developed. For the analysis of quantitative variables measures of central tendency (mean) and dispersion (standard deviation) were used; whereas for qualitative variables frequencies and percentages were used. RESULTS:The average age of students was 22.7 EAP obstetrics ± 5.2 years. Most were aged> 18 years (92.0%) were women (91.4%) had marital status be single (94.9%) were Catholic (78.9%), their parents sustained their studies (76.0%) and had as main source of information to the internet (77.1%). Knowledge regarding abortion increased gradually over the years of study, so students 1st year showed low percentages of knowledge regarding fertilization as the beginning of life, knowledge of the 22 weeks deadline to consider abortion, where abortion is permitted, therapeutic abortion as the only permitted abortion, the penalty of 1-6 years for practicing abortion and infection as physical complications of abortion, these percentages increased knowledge in all these cases the 100% in the 5th year students. Knowledge about the right time for LU and MVA was low in 1st year students, reaching high percentages 5th year students (91.4% and 94.3%, respectively). Most students (62.3%) reported that guilt is the most common psychological consequence of abortion. 49.1% of students were characterized by an attitude disagree with the legalization of abortion, 42.9% were in favor and only 8.0% preferred not comment. A high percentage of 1st year students agreed with abortion in cases of malformations, vital danger of women, rape, economic hardship and unwanted pregnancy; however, students of the 5th year, the opposite happened, as most disagree with abortion services in all the above cases showed. In case of an alleged pregnancy, 53.1% of students said that no opt for the abortion and 46.9% if they would, being the fact truncos leave their studies (68.3%) the main reason would resort to abortion. CONCLUSIONS: Students of Obstetrics EAP admitted with a diffuse knowledge and attitude in favor of abortion; however, academic, attitudinal and human formation of successive years of study, strengthen knowledge and attitude becomes disagree with abortion practices in its different forms. KEYWORDS:abortion, attitudes, knowledge, therapeutic abortion.
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