Table 4.
Attitude of health care providers towards safe abortion care at public health facilities in Bahir Dar City, Northwest, Ethiopia, 2021, (n = 413)
| Variables | Strongly agree | Agree | Neutral | Disagree | Strongly disagree |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Having inadequate knowledge of abortion makes the woman abort | 38.3% | 36.3% | 4.1% | 14.3% | 7.0% |
| The economic constraint is one of the reasons that women abort | 41.9% | 40.7% | 4.6% | 10.4% | 2.4% |
| Women used abortion as a contraceptive method | 30.5% | 29.8% | 9.9% | 16.2% | 13.6% |
| Women abort the fetus to avoid unwanted pregnancy | 41.6% | 40.0% | 5.6% | 10.2% | 2.7% |
| Women seek abortion services for health reasons | 38.3% | 37.5% | 5.1% | 14.0% | 5.1% |
| Women abort the fetus because of partner pressure | 32.2% | 32.9% | 9.2% | 17.2% | 8.5% |
| Not being married is a reason for an abortion | 34.1% | 34.1% | 8.7% | 15.7% | 7.3% |
| Working in the abortion unit gives comfort | 28.6% | 32.7% | 14.5% | 18.6% | 5.6% |
| Abortion should be performed for raped women | 44.8% | 39.7% | 2.7% | 6.3% | 6.5% |
| Abortion should be performed for women who become pregnant because of incest | 43.8% | 38.5% | 5.1% | 7.0% | 5.6% |
| Abortion should be performed if the pregnancy endangers the health of the woman | 53.0% | 38.7% | 3.9% | 3.4% | 1.0% |
| Abortion should be performed for women with mental disabilities | 40.2% | 37.8% | 6.3% | 9.0% | 6.8% |
| Abortion should be performed if she seeks and her age is under 18 years | 36.1% | 34.4% | 7.3% | 10.9% | 11.4% |
| Abortion should be performed if the fetus has a congenital anomaly | 48.9% | 42.4% | 3.6% | 4.1% | 1.0% |
| Abortion service should be accessible under any circumstance | 16.2% | 36.8% | 10.7% | 26.4% | 9.9% |
| Legal/safe abortion should be legalized further | 17.2% | 38.5% | 8.7% | 25.7% | 9.9% |
| Abortion should be legal for unplanned pregnancy | 7.0% | 35.6% | 13.1% | 31.7% | 12.6% |
| Performing medical abortion is more comfortable than surgical abortion | 11.4% | 49.4% | 12.1% | 18.9% | 8.2% |
| Medical abortion during 1st trimester of pregnancy should be performed by all healthcare provider | 14.5% | 38.5% | 5.8% | 32.2% | 9.0% |
| Surgical abortion in 1st trimester of pregnancy should be performed by all healthcare providers | 1.0% | 26.2% | 2.4% | 35.8% | 34.6% |
| Attitude toward safe abortion | |||||
| Favorable attitude | 290 (70.20) | ||||
| Unfavorable attitude | 123 (29.80) |