Agostino M B, Wahlberg V
Nordic School of Public Health, Goteborg, Sweden.
Soc Sci Med. 1991;33(1):77-82. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(91)90458-o.
Both Italy and Sweden have legislated abortion without grounds since the 1970s but background conditions in the two countries are bipolar. The overall purpose of the present study was to investigate a sample of adolescents from Italy and Sweden regarding their attitudes towards abortion and their knowledge of family planning and to compare the results from the two countries. A questionnaire was distributed among 400 adolescents, 177 from Stockholm, Sweden and 223 from Rome and Locri, Italy. Whereas Sweden is a relatively homogeneous country. Italy has large regional differences regarding social and other aspects. For this reason two regions of Italy were studied separately. The participants were all secondary school students. The results indicated that nearly all adolescents in both countries were concerned about abortion and its consequences, although their concern was expressed differently, in accordance with their religious and cultural norms and also with their background in sexual education. The present study raises questions concerning the knowledge level as an outcome of sex education programs. In fact comparing the answers between the Italian and the Swedish samples no particular difference, in favour of the Swedish adolescents was noticed.
自20世纪70年代以来，意大利和瑞典都立法允许无理由堕胎，但两国的背景情况却截然相反。本研究的总体目的是调查来自意大利和瑞典的青少年样本对堕胎的态度以及他们的计划生育知识，并比较两国的结果。向400名青少年发放了问卷，其中177名来自瑞典斯德哥尔摩，223名来自意大利罗马和洛克里。瑞典是一个相对同质化的国家，而意大利在社会和其他方面存在很大的地区差异。因此，对意大利的两个地区进行了分别研究。参与者均为中学生。结果表明，两国几乎所有青少年都关注堕胎及其后果，尽管他们的关注方式因宗教和文化规范以及性教育背景的不同而有所差异。本研究提出了关于性教育项目结果的知识水平问题。事实上，比较意大利和瑞典样本的答案，未发现有利于瑞典青少年的特别差异。
