SOME IDEAS AND VIEWS OF ABORTION; GRADE V AND VI MEDICAL STUDENTS

The purpose of this paper is to reassess the ideas and knowledge of grade V and VI medical students about induced abortion. Data was collected through using a standard questionnaire under observation from 301 students (51.0%).This is a descriptive epidemiologic study . SPSS 15.0 Statistical Package Program for Social Sciences was used for the analyses. Descriptive frequencies, t-test, chi-square and ANOVA tests were used. The study was approved by the Hacettepe University of Noninvasive Researches Ethique Commity. 47.2% students were male, 53.8% were grade VI and 40.9 of them have taken a family planning course. Religious view 12.1% and personal views 18.2% were major reasons of the medical students’ whom will not be making abortion for their patient when everything is suitable with the procedure. 61.9% said thet they are goig to consider the time and the conditions if they had to make abortion for themselves. Four thirds wanted a course about abortion. Male students’ 67.6%, female students’ 81.2% want to have a course about abortion (p<0.05). 19.3% of male and 10.3% of female students said that they are going to be disliked at the society if they make abortion as a part of their job (p<0.05). This shows that there are some students who have taken the course but feels insufficient. Education methods and headdings can be viewed.