Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
Department of Physiology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan.
Biomed Res Int. 2021 Apr 26;2021:6624181. doi: 10.1155/2021/6624181. eCollection 2021.
Jordan laws on permitting abortion are considered moderate. Religion is one of the key determinants of people's attitudes towards abortion and plays a crucial role in people's readiness to accept or refute this practice. In this study, we examined the attitudes of medical and health sciences students towards abortion.
In this cross-sectional study, a self-administered questionnaire survey was distributed to students at Jordan University of Science and Technology. Attitudes towards abortion were tested using 16 items that were included in the survey. Descriptive statistics and logistic regression models were used in the analysis.
A total of 1324 students in the medicine and dentistry colleges participated in the study. Two-thirds of the participants were women. Most participants were 20-25 years old, and they grew up in a family of 6-8 members. The overall attitude towards abortion was negative, except if the pregnancy was a threat to the mother's life (91.5%) or if the conception occurred from rape (54.2%). Otherwise, the students indicated that every conceived child has the right to be born (76.8%) and that abortion is considered murder (53.1%). Furthermore, the students who were more likely to support abortion were those attending the medical college, living in a city, and/or raised in smaller families ( = 0.04).
Compared with other students, medical students were more supportive of abortion. This implied the necessity to include training on safe abortion in the medical curriculum and increase public awareness of the importance of safe abortion.
约旦关于堕胎许可的法律被认为是较为宽松的。宗教是人们对堕胎态度的关键决定因素之一，在人们对这一做法的接受或反对意愿中起着至关重要的作用。在这项研究中，我们研究了医学和健康科学专业学生对堕胎的态度。
在这项横断面研究中，我们向约旦科技大学的学生发放了一份自我管理的问卷调查表。采用包括在调查中的 16 个项目来测试对堕胎的态度。采用描述性统计和逻辑回归模型进行分析。
共有来自医学和牙科学院的 1324 名学生参加了这项研究。三分之二的参与者为女性。大多数参与者年龄在 20-25 岁之间，他们成长在一个 6-8 名成员的家庭中。对堕胎的总体态度是消极的，但如果怀孕对母亲的生命构成威胁（91.5%）或如果怀孕是强奸的结果（54.2%）则除外。否则，学生们表示，每一个受孕的孩子都有出生的权利（76.8%），并且堕胎被视为谋杀（53.1%）。此外，更倾向于支持堕胎的学生是那些就读于医学院、居住在城市中和/或成长在较小家庭中的学生（ = 0.04）。
与其他学生相比，医学生更支持堕胎。这意味着必须在医学课程中纳入安全堕胎培训，并提高公众对安全堕胎重要性的认识。
