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Nurses’attitudes towards termination of pregnancy
Author(s) -
Marshall Sara L,
Gould Dinah,
Roberts Julia
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of advanced nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.948
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 1365-2648
pISSN - 0309-2402
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2648.1994.tb02397.x
Subject(s) - pregnancy , obstetrics , medicine , psychology , nursing , biology , genetics
This questionnaire study (n = 84) investigated several aspects of the attitudes of nurses of various grades and clinical settings towards termination of pregnancy (TOP) The majority of nurses had attitudes which lay within the undecided to positive range of the continuum, similar to findings from previous North American and British research Very few were found to have extremely positive or negative attitudes Several factors were significantly associated with negative attitudes towards TOP frequency of involvement in TOP, length of time spent working on a gynaecology ward, religious affiliation, and ethnicity Some discrepancy in nurses’attitudes was found with respect to both the length of a woman's gestation and the circumstances for which the procedure was being performed In view of these findings, the implications for nursing practice are discussed