Attitudes and Intentions of Future Health Care Providers Toward Abortion Provision

Abstract

58Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health attending the University of Washington and their intention to provide abortion services in their practices. The primary outcome of this study was students' intention to incorporate abortion into their practice. Secondary outcomes were willingness to seek abortion training and attitudes toward advanced clinical practitioner provision of abortion services. On the basis of previous work, we hypothesized that students in medical programs, those in women's health-oriented programs and those who spent their first 15 years of life in an urban area would be more likely than others to intend to provide abortions, once age, sex and religion are controlled for. Also, we predicted that students would be more willing to perform medical abortions than surgical abortions, because medical abortions are limited to first-trimester terminations of pregnancy. METHODS Sample SelectionStudents enrolled in the University of Washington School of Medicine, physician assistant program (MEDEX) or School of Nursing were eligible to participate. We selected our sample on the basis of student availability within each program. First-and second-year nursing and MEDEX students were offered the survey, as were second-year medical students; first-year medical students were not eligible to participate because they were geographically dispersed in

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