Health professionals' opinions regarding abortions and the abortion law in samples from Italy and Sweden.

Abstract:

:The present study was undertaken to investigate the opinions of health professionals working in family planning clinics in Italy and Sweden. The comparison of two such different countries seemed of interest both to describe differences and/or similarities between the samples as well as to analyze factors that could influence professionals' opinions regarding abortion. A questionnaire was distributed to doctors, nurses and social workers in family planning clinics in Rome, Italy and in Gothenburg, Sweden. The opinions of the health professionals in the two countries investigated were similar in many respects, both regarding their attitudes to abortion as well as their considerations concerning the care offered to the woman/couple undergoing an abortion. Fifty-nine percent of the Italian sample and 68% of the Swedish sample considered abortion justifiable on the same indications as those laid down in the laws, while 36% of the Italian and 32% of the Swedish professionals considered it justifiable only on medical grounds and 5% in the Italian sample did not justify abortion at all. In both Italy and Sweden, doctors as well as nurses suggest that the preventive work should be increased and that the psychological care for women undergoing abortion has to be improved.

journal_name

Gynecol Obstet Invest

authors

Agostino MB,De Marinis MG,Wahlberg V

doi

10.1159/000293118

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-01-01 00:00:00

pages

125-9

issue

3

eissn

0378-7346

issn

1423-002X

journal_volume

31

pub_type

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