Conocimientos y actitudes de las causales de aborto no punible entre ginecólogos que laboran en Cuenca en el 2016

Abstract

Antecedents: Ecuador's law establishes in the article 150 of the COIP that abortion can be practiced without punishments with specific conditions, it is vital for the medical practice to know these laws and to evaluate this level of knowledge is the object of this research work. General objective: Identify knowledge and attitudes about the causes of non-punishable abortion among gynecologists in the Cuenca canton Methodology: Descriptive study carried out in 60 gynecologists, to obtain the data was applied a survey based on the knowledge of the specialist. Tables and graphs were elaborated according to the objectives, using the program Microsoft Excel 2010. Results: The majority of the professionals were males with 51.7%, their average age were 46.25 years. The average number of years in professional practice was 14.97 years (SD=8.7years).The 76.7% of the cases are Catholic. The 96.7% had knowledge about the causes for which abortion might be legal. Most of abortion was therapeutic reasons (its mean: risk of mom`s life) with 93.3%. And the lowest frequency was mother health with 3.3%. 70% of the gynecologists said to know the change done in Art.150 of COIP. But only 3.3% knew it. 70% of the respondents correctly answered the meaning of health. 55% of the professionals have a positive attitude when asking them about if to perform abortions in cases of rape. 75% of gynecologists are agree that would decriminalize abortion in Ecuador. Conclusions: Considering that the medical practice is legislated. The doctors' knowledge about laws should be complete and integral. With this antecedents, it is concluded that specialists have a high level of general knowledge about art. 150 of COIP, but in particular there is a high ignorance of the change that was made in that article in 2014 that could condition their attitude and practices