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Knowledge, attitude and factors associated with induced abortion among female students ‘of Private Colleges in Ambo town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. Six out of 10 (61%) of all unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 (29%) of all pregnancies, end in induced abortion. In Africa, nearly half of all abortions occur under the least safe circumstances. In Ethiopia 35% of w...

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Autores principales: Gutema, Rebuma Muleta, Dina, Gurmesa Daba
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9389833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35982447
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01935-3
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description BACKGROUND: Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. Six out of 10 (61%) of all unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 (29%) of all pregnancies, end in induced abortion. In Africa, nearly half of all abortions occur under the least safe circumstances. In Ethiopia 35% of women obtaining induced abortions service. Therefore, thisstudy aims to assess knowledge, attitude, and associated factors towards induced abortion serviceamong female students of private Colleges in Ambo town, Ethiopia, 2022. METHODS: An Institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from January 15, 2022, to February 15, 2022, among college students in Ambo, Ethiopia. Data were collected from 631 female students using semi-structured self-administered questionnaires by a systematic sampling method. We collected data on demographics, Institutional factors: facility policy and regulation, sexual experience, knowledge, and attitude. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were done to identify the association of dependent and independent variables using SPSS, version 26, at 95% of confidence interval by adjusting for confounding factors. Finally, variables with p-value ≤ 0.05 were taken as factors associated. RESULTS: All the participants gave their responses.Among the participants 279 (44.2) have good knowledge while the majority 352 (55.8%) of the students had poor knowledge about induced abortion. Age [AOR = 4.64, 95% CI (2.95,7.30)], Marital status [AOR = 5.24, 95% CI (3.16, 8.69)], religion [AOR = 0.48, 95% CI (0.26,0.81)], Year of study [AOR = 4.51, 95% CI (2.88,7.08)], Monthly earn/income [AOR = 2.07, 95% (CI 1.40,3.07)], Ever had sex [AOR = 1.92, 95% CI (1.26,2.92)] and urban residence [AOR = 1.87, 95% CI (1.26, 4.35)] were factors associated with knowledge of students towards induced abortion. Regarding attitude, 377 (59.7%) of students had good attitude towards induced abortion. Marital status [AOR = 2.30, 95% CI (1.30, 4.0)], and Religion [AOR = 0.47, 95% CI (0.10, 2.23)] were factors significantly associated with attitude towards induced abortion. CONCLUSION: More than half of the participants have poor knowledge while majority of the students have a good attitude toward induced abortion. Since majority of the students (55.8%) have poor knowledge about induced abortion: health education, short course training, panel discussions and communication programs for youth on induction of abortion services is crucial.
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spelling pubmed-93898332022-08-20 Knowledge, attitude and factors associated with induced abortion among female students ‘of Private Colleges in Ambo town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study Gutema, Rebuma Muleta Dina, Gurmesa Daba BMC Womens Health Research BACKGROUND: Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year. Six out of 10 (61%) of all unintended pregnancies, and 3 out of 10 (29%) of all pregnancies, end in induced abortion. In Africa, nearly half of all abortions occur under the least safe circumstances. In Ethiopia 35% of women obtaining induced abortions service. Therefore, thisstudy aims to assess knowledge, attitude, and associated factors towards induced abortion serviceamong female students of private Colleges in Ambo town, Ethiopia, 2022. METHODS: An Institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from January 15, 2022, to February 15, 2022, among college students in Ambo, Ethiopia. Data were collected from 631 female students using semi-structured self-administered questionnaires by a systematic sampling method. We collected data on demographics, Institutional factors: facility policy and regulation, sexual experience, knowledge, and attitude. Bivariable and multivariable logistic regression analyses were done to identify the association of dependent and independent variables using SPSS, version 26, at 95% of confidence interval by adjusting for confounding factors. Finally, variables with p-value ≤ 0.05 were taken as factors associated. RESULTS: All the participants gave their responses.Among the participants 279 (44.2) have good knowledge while the majority 352 (55.8%) of the students had poor knowledge about induced abortion. Age [AOR = 4.64, 95% CI (2.95,7.30)], Marital status [AOR = 5.24, 95% CI (3.16, 8.69)], religion [AOR = 0.48, 95% CI (0.26,0.81)], Year of study [AOR = 4.51, 95% CI (2.88,7.08)], Monthly earn/income [AOR = 2.07, 95% (CI 1.40,3.07)], Ever had sex [AOR = 1.92, 95% CI (1.26,2.92)] and urban residence [AOR = 1.87, 95% CI (1.26, 4.35)] were factors associated with knowledge of students towards induced abortion. Regarding attitude, 377 (59.7%) of students had good attitude towards induced abortion. Marital status [AOR = 2.30, 95% CI (1.30, 4.0)], and Religion [AOR = 0.47, 95% CI (0.10, 2.23)] were factors significantly associated with attitude towards induced abortion. CONCLUSION: More than half of the participants have poor knowledge while majority of the students have a good attitude toward induced abortion. Since majority of the students (55.8%) have poor knowledge about induced abortion: health education, short course training, panel discussions and communication programs for youth on induction of abortion services is crucial. BioMed Central 2022-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9389833/ /pubmed/35982447 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01935-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Knowledge, attitude and factors associated with induced abortion among female students ‘of Private Colleges in Ambo town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title Knowledge, attitude and factors associated with induced abortion among female students ‘of Private Colleges in Ambo town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_full Knowledge, attitude and factors associated with induced abortion among female students ‘of Private Colleges in Ambo town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Knowledge, attitude and factors associated with induced abortion among female students ‘of Private Colleges in Ambo town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Knowledge, attitude and factors associated with induced abortion among female students ‘of Private Colleges in Ambo town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_short Knowledge, attitude and factors associated with induced abortion among female students ‘of Private Colleges in Ambo town, Oromia regional state, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
title_sort knowledge, attitude and factors associated with induced abortion among female students ‘of private colleges in ambo town, oromia regional state, ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9389833/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35982447
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12905-022-01935-3
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