Postawy życiowe studentów pielęgniarstwa a ich stosunek do aborcji
Journal Title: Innowacje w Pielęgniarstwie i Naukach o Zdrowiu - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 3
Abstract
1. Introduction. The problem of abortion, as well as other controversial issues such as euthanasia and other ethical dilemmas of our times, divide the society of nearly the whole world into both the supporters or opponents. Any satisfactory solution will probably never be found but this does not absolve people from debating and searching for the best possible solution to be found in respective time. 2. Aim. This study has aimed to investigate life attitudes of nursing students and influence of these attitudes upon the students' stance on abortion. 3. Material and methods. For the purpose of obtaining respective researching material, a diagnostic survey method was applied; the technique was based on surveying with the self-prepared questionnaire as a tool. The study also used a standardized questionnaire of attitudes to life, which consisted of 10 statements. The study was conducted among 80 students of nursing faculty and 80 students of the faculty of economics at the State Higher Vocational School in Ciechanów. The respondents were characterized in accordance with the following categories: gender, age, place of residence and religious activity. 4. Results. The analysis of the research material indicated that students' attitudes (both nursing and economy faculty students) partially affect their attitude to abortion. 53% of the total number of students surveyed were opposed to abortion. A similar number of respondents had a neutral attitude to abortion, while 55% which is more than half were not in favour of abortion being legalized in Poland. 61.2% which was more than half of the students surveyed (both nursing and economy) felt that abortion was a murder committed upon the unborn child. The opposite statement was shared by 13.1% of respondents. 67% of the respondents agreed with the statement that life begins at conception, while the opposite view was shared by only 10.4% of the respondents. 67,5% of the total number of students think that abortion is nothing else but depriving the child of the right to live. The overwhelming majority of 70.6% respondents believed that abortion should be allowed when it is a threat to the mother's or a child's health or life. As many as 66% of students believe that the procedure of abortion should be permitted when there is a risk of severe damage to the foetus or an incurable disease. At the same time 59.4% of the respondents expressed their support for abortion when it was a result of a criminal offense. Those who declared their religious faith and opposed the idea of legalizing abortion in Poland amounted to 58.4%, as well as 9.1% of respondents not declaring their religious faith also expressed this attitude of not supporting abortion legalization. More than a half of non-religious students i.e. 63.7% were in favour of the abortion legalization, which was also the outlook of 23.5% of the religious respondents. Women more often than men refer negatively to the idea of supporting legalization of abortion in Poland. Conclusions 1. There is a discrepancy between the declared outlook and behaviour in terms of permissibility of pregnancy terminationin different situations. 2. The declared support for abortion significantly depends upon the particular situation. 3. Religion plays an important role as a factor of moral and social rights, which in consequence affects the declared views upon the bioethical issues. 4. There is a need to pay special attention to the issues of bioethics in the education of nursing students. 5. Different measures such as social campaigns should be taken to raise awareness of young men on hat the consequences of abortion for a woman are. 6. Further research should include a wider range of life attitudes than just a sense of purpose.
Authors and Affiliations
Bożena Ostrowska, Karolina Szostek, Małgorzata Marcysiak
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