Impact of maternity nurses attitudes and beliefs toward abortion patients on physical and psychological care from the women's perspectives

ABSTRACT

Maternity nurses' attitudes and beliefs towards abortion may remain as a potential obstacle to timely prompt, accurate and easily accessible abortion care. Therefore, the aim of study was to identify the impact of maternity nurses' attitude and beliefs toward abortion on physical and psychological care from the women's perspectives. the study was conducted at the El-shatby maternity hospital throughout a period of three months, using a cross-sectional analytical design on almost available [3o] maternity nurses who are working on abortion ward and [100] women who were recently undergoing abortion. Tools of data collection [1] Socio-demographic and biological data sheet concerned with characteristics of both the maternity nurses and the women, [2] Abortion Attitude Scale, [3] Belief-based attitude scale and [4] Interviewing data sheet to elicit data about Physical and Psychological Care of abortion. The main study findings showed that, there were no significant associations between the maternity nurses' core attitude toward abortion for reasoning of protecting the women health and the main physical and psychological care provided for them in accordance with their perspectives. Meanwhile, there is significant association between previously identified attitude and one of main psychological care However, there is significant association between the nurses' believe toward abortion for the reasoning of unwanted child and the one of principal physical care. Moreover, there is highly significant association between the nurses' believe toward abortion for the reasoning of protecting women life and principal psychological care. Moreover, the study concluded that, there are significant associations between some of maternity nurses' main attitudes and believes and principal of both physical and psychological care from women's perspectives. In the light of the study results, it is recommended that further research is suggested to study quality of abortion care standards and the patient overall satisfaction regarding the care provided