Conocimientos y actitudes de los estudiantes del 3ro bachillerato de la “Unidad Educativa Chordeleg” sobre métodos abortivos, 2018

Abstract

Background: morbidity and mortality in women due to abortion is one of the main indicators of the health dimensions that a population must face, in addition to highlighting poverty and the lack of education to exercise their rights. Having knowledge about various health methods of pregnancy termination reduces the morbidity and mortality of women in fertile state. General Objective: identify the knowledge and attitudes of the students of the 3rd baccalaureate of the Unidad Educativa Chordeleg on abortive methods, 2018. Methodology: a descriptive, retrospective and cross-sectional study was carried out, working with a finite universe of 147 students of the Chordeleg Educational Unit of the 3rd baccalaureate. The instrument used was a questionnaire of knowledge and an attitude test, validated in the research of Trujillo and Sembrera (2015). This instrument was adjusted to our research, in order to achieve our objectives. The data were analyzed in the statistical program SPSS 15 and the results are presented in frequency tables and percentages. Result Results: According to the results of the surveys, it was found that 51% of adolescents reside in the rural area, 91.2% have an age between 17 to 19 years, 51% represent the female sex, 68% have received sex education by government entities. In relation to the knowledge on abortion, 74.1% evidenced low basic aspects of the interruption of pregnancy, 76% do not know about the safe medical abortive methods. It is concluded that there is a low knowledge of adolescents about abortive methods and the attitude is indifferent to it.