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KMID : 0928020040080010079
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Nursing and Innovation
2004 Volume.8 No. 1 p.79 ~ p.90
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Knowledge Attitudes, and Experiences towards Induced Abortion of Urban Eligible Women
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Bae Young-Hee
Jung Moon-Sook
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Abstract
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From August 10 to September 15 of 2002, for this research a questionnaire survey was conducted to gather information about knowledge, attitudes, and experiences towards induced abortion of 528 residentially urban eligible women.
The results of this study were as follows;
Generally the average level of knowledge about induced abortion is 14.6 points and people in the thirties scored 14.8 points, which is the highest. In an educational level, those who were graduated from colleges scored 14.9 points. The professionals and secretary assistants scored 15.0 points. People who had grown up in the metropolitan area scored 14.9 points. Therefore, there was a significant difference of point level on an account of educational level, occupation, and ones grown place.
Due to the survey stats, 98 percent of the answer suggested that induced abortion psychologically burdens women, followed by that induced abortion can cause hemorrhage. According to the Mother and Child Health Law, the percentage of allowing legitimate induced abortion during 28th week after pregnancy was 32.
Taking a look at attitudes towards induced abortion, the percentage of allowing induced abortion when a woman had unwanted pregnancy was 75.6. However, the percentage of allowing induced abortion through a gender differential diagnosis was only 20.3. The rate of allowing induced abortion to secure the fetus life in any condition was 64.8, followed by 57.1 percent of approving induced abortion for an unmarried mother Except when having a gender differential diagnosis, the rate of allowing induced abortion was high.
In case to secure the fetus life, younger people agreed more with induced abortion (p<0.05). There was an eminently sharp difference among Catholic, metropolitan (p<0.05), people without children. The rate of agreeing with induced abortion for an unmarried mother was high and there was a prominent difference as ones education level was lower.
The higher the age was, the higher the percentage of allowing legitimate induced abortion during 28th week after pregnancy. The rate was also higher among Buddhist (p<0.01) and less educated people.
Observing a rate of experiencing induced abortion if ones married or unmarried, 74.3 percent of married women experienced induced abortion. So did 14.4 percent of unmarried women. The higher rate appeared among people at higher age, Buddhist, less educated people, and low skilled workers. There was a significant difference among age, academic background, and people with children or without children (p<0.05, p<0.01).
Confirming the actual condition of women who experienced induced abortion, 55.5 percent of 218 women, who experienced induced abortion, went through induced abortion at least once and 13.4 percent of them did it three times. The average age of women for initiating induced abortion was 26.8 years old and the average age at the last stage was 31.6 years old. An operating location was most likely to be a gynecological hospital (95.4 %). The side effect of inducted abortion was dizziness (67.9 %), requiring average four days of treatment.
The correlation between knowledge and induced abortion demonstrated that the rate of experiencing induced abortion grew higher lacking in knowledge.
Monitoring the rate of contraception among women who were married or unmarried, 66.7 percent of married women were practicing birth control and 6.5 percent of unmarried women were also doing it. For married women, there was a significant difference of pregnancy rate on account of age and children. However for unmarried women a major difference of pregnancy rage appeared in every point but religion (p<0.01).
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KEYWORD
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urban eligible women, induced abortion
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