Actitudes de los profesionales médicos frente a la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo en el Hospital Regional de Loreto - 2022

Abstract

Objectives: Evaluate attitudes of medical professionals towards the voluntary termination of pregnancy at the Regional Hospital of Loreto - 2022. Methods: Descriptive study and cross-sectional design, which had 70 medical professionals as study population, directly contracted at the Regional Hospital of Loreto, 2023. Obtaining as results: the doctors are young and male; Being the majority Catholic and with children, the attitude of the doctors towards the voluntary interruption of pregnancy was predominantly positive, of them the General Medicine doctors had a more positive attitude towards the voluntary interruption of pregnancy. In multivariate analysis, physicians younger than 37 years were more likely to have a positive attitude toward voluntary termination of pregnancy compared with those older than 37 years. Physicians with religion were less likely to have a positive attitude towards voluntary termination of pregnancy compared with those without religion. Physicians with less than 10 years of service were also more likely to have a positive attitude toward voluntary termination of pregnancy. Conclusions: Younger medical professionals, those without religion, and those with fewer years of medical professional service were found to be more likely to have positive effect attitudes toward voluntary termination of pregnancy compared with their older, religious, and older counterparts. of service.

Este trabajo de investigación se realizó con el propósito de determinar las actitudes de los profesionales médicos frente la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo en el Hospital Regional de Loreto. Este estudio fue descriptivo y transversal, donde se aplicó una encuesta a 70 profesionales médicos de contrato indeterminado en el Hospital Regional de Loreto en el año 2023. Los resultados obtenidos fueron que los médicos jóvenes, varones y con hijos manifestaron actitud positiva hacia la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo en un 30, 35 y 40% respectivamente. Así mismo los médicos que laboran en el servicio de Medicina General tuvieron actitud favorable en un 20%. Un 40% de médicos menores de 37 años con religión determinada y un 80% de aquellos que tenían menos de 10 años de servicio también tuvieron una actitud positiva hacia la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo. Se concluye que los profesionales médicos jóvenes menores de 37 años, aquellos sin religión y aquellos con menos años de servicio profesional médico son más propensos a tener actitudes positivas hacia la interrupción voluntaria del embarazo.