Circumstances to access abortion | Legal | Not considered legal by current law | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Life risk* | Rape of woman with developmental disability* | Rape | Health risk* | Mental health risk | Severe foetal malformations | Any foetal malformation* | |||
Medicine | First year N = 234 | n | 192 | 153 | 141 | 55 | 46 | 88 | 9 |
% | 82.10 | 65.40 | 60.30 | 23.50 | 19.70 | 37.60 | 3.80 | ||
Final year N = 423 | n | 384 | 375 | 283 | 112 | 57 | 250 | 2 | |
% | 90.90 | 88.60 | 67.10 | 26.50 | 13.40 | 59.50 | 0.50 | ||
p value | <0.05 | <0.001 | <0.05 | <0.001 | <0.05 | ||||
Nursing | First year N = 59 | n | 53 | 43 | 42 | 23 | 15 | 22 | 4 |
% | 89.80 | 72.90 | 71.20 | 39 | 25.40 | 37.30 | 6.80 | ||
Final year N = 42 | n | 34 | 34 | 33 | 7 | 9 | 20 | 5 | |
% | 79.90 | 80.80 | 79.00 | 16.90 | 21.40 | 47.50 | 12.30 | ||
p value | <0.05 | ||||||||
Midwifery | First year N = 33 | n | 22 | 20 | 26 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 0 |
% | 66.70 | 60.60 | 78.80 | 12.10 | 24.20 | 27.30 | 0.00 | ||
Final year N = 56 | n | 46 | 44 | 42 | 15 | 8 | 38 | 1 | |
% | 82.10 | 78.60 | 75.00 | 26.80 | 14.30 | 67.90 | 1.80 | ||
p value | <0.001 | ||||||||
Other Studies | First year N = 65 | n | 45 | 42 | 39 | 16 | 10 | 24 | 3 |
% | 70 | 65.50 | 61.20 | 26 | 16.30 | 37.60 | 5.30 | ||
Final year N = 71 | n | 55 | 55 | 48 | 29 | 13 | 36 | 5 | |
% | 79.60 | 77.20 | 65.10 | 42.30 | 18.80 | 53.10 | 7.40 | ||
p value | <0.05 | <0.05 | |||||||
TOTAL | First year N = 391 | n | 312 | 258 | 248 | 98 | 79 | 143 | 16 |
% | 79.10 | 66.20 | 62.40 | 25.80 | 19.50 | 37.30 | 4.50 | ||
Final year N= 592 | n | 519 | 508 | 406 | 163 | 87 | 344 | 13 | |
% | 87.40 | 85.40 | 67.90 | 29.00 | 15.20 | 57.40 | 2.90 | ||
p value | <0.001 | <0.001 | <0.001 |
*Circumstances in which there is a significant difference among final-year students by fields of study (p < 0.05)
Int J Med Educ. 2016; 7:95-101; doi: 10.5116/ijme.56e0.74be