Development of a Conceptual Model and Survey Instrument to Measure Conscientious Objection to Abortion Provision

Autor: Peter Baffoe, Laura Gil Urbano, Caitlin Gerdts, Ndola Prata, Ana Cristina González Vélez, John Koku Awoonor-Williams, Laura Florence Harris, Jodi Halpern
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
genetic structures
Medical Doctors
Health Care Providers
Alternative medicine
lcsh:Medicine
Social Sciences
Abortion
Surveys
Ghana
Cultural Anthropology
Geographical Locations
0302 clinical medicine
Sociology
Unsafe abortion
Surveys and Questionnaires
Medicine and Health Sciences
Public and Occupational Health
030212 general & internal medicine
Termination of Pregnancy
lcsh:Science
media_common
030219 obstetrics & reproductive medicine
Multidisciplinary
Conscientious objector
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Religion
Professions
Research Design
Research Article
medicine.medical_specialty
Attitude of Health Personnel
media_common.quotation_subject
Colombia
Research and Analysis Methods
Formative assessment
03 medical and health sciences
Physicians
Reproductive rights
medicine
Humans
Conscience
Regulations
Survey Research
business.industry
Public health
lcsh:R
Abortion
Induced
Refusal to Treat
South America
Models
Theoretical
Health Care
Law
Anthropology
Ndola [BRII recipient]
People and Places
Africa
Women's Health
lcsh:Q
Law and Legal Sciences
Population Groupings
business
Zdroj: PLoS ONE
Harris, Laura Florence; Awoonor-Williams, John Koku; Gerdts, Caitlin; Gil Urbano, Laura; Gonzalez Velez, Ana Cristina; Halpern, Jodi; et al.(2016). Development of a Conceptual Model and Survey Instrument to Measure Conscientious Objection to Abortion Provision. PLOS ONE, 11(10), e0164368. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164368. UC Berkeley: UC Berkeley Library. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/6tp124pq
PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 10, p e0164368 (2016)
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164368.
Popis: Author(s): Harris, Laura Florence; Awoonor-Williams, John Koku; Gerdts, Caitlin; Gil Urbano, Laura; Gonzalez Velez, Ana Cristina; Halpern, Jodi; Prata, Ndola; Baffoe, Peter | Abstract: Conscientious objection to abortion, clinicians’ refusal to perform legal abortions because of their religious or moral beliefs, has been the subject of increasing debate among bioethicists, policymakers, and public health advocates in recent years. Conscientious objection policies are intended to balance reproductive rights and clinicians’ beliefs. However, in practice, clinician objection can act as a barrier to abortion access–impinging on reproductive rights, and increasing unsafe abortion and related morbidity and mortality. There is little information about conscientious objection from a medical or public health perspective. A quantitative instrument is needed to assess prevalence of conscientious objection and to provide insight on its practice. This paper describes the development of a survey instrument to measure conscientious objection to abortion provision.Methods: A literature review, and in-depth formative interviews with stakeholders in Colombia were used to develop a conceptual model of conscientious objection. This model led to the development of a survey, which was piloted, and then administered, in Ghana.Results: The model posits three domains of conscientious objection that form the basis for the survey instrument: 1) beliefs about abortion and conscientious objection; 2) actions related to conscientious objection and abortion; and 3) self-identification as a conscientious objector.Conclusions: The instrument is intended to be used to assess prevalence among clinicians trained to provide abortions, and to gain insight on how conscientious objection is practiced in a variety of settings. Its results can inform more effective and appropriate strategies to regulate conscientious objection.
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