Year: 2026 | Month: April-June | Volume: 10 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 53-60
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/gijash.20260208
Factors Affecting Induced Abortion Women Attending Clinic at Kathmandu
Shashi Panday1, Jarina Shrestha2, Shraddha Adhikari3
1M. Sc. Nursing in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Assistant Professor, Norvic College of Health Science and Technology (NCHST) Kathmandu, Nepal.
2M. Sc. Nursing in Paediatric Nursing, Assistant Professor, Om Health Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal.
3Bachelor of Nursing Science (BNS), Marie Stopes, Kathmandu, Nepal.
Corresponding Author: Shashi Panday
ABSTRACT
Introduction: Induced abortion is described as surgical or medical termination of a live fetus before the time of fetus viability. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), induced abortion can be safe or unsafe abortion causes a significant proportion of maternal deaths and morbidity each year, 22 million unsafe abortions are estimated to take place globally and it is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in many sub-Saharan African countries
Method: A descriptive cross-sectional design was adopted for the study. Non probability convenience sampling technique was used to select the 140 women. Descriptive statistics like mean, median, frequency and standard deviation for calculating frequency and percentage and inferential statistics such as chi square test or fisher exact was used to determine the association between knowledge of induced abortion and selected socio-demographic variables. The logistic model was assessed significant predictors of induced abortion using Hosmer- Lemeshow test.
Result: The majority (88.6%) literate education status participants and who have one child was number of participants more than one fourth (34.3 %). All most (92.1%) of participants had high knowledge on induce abortion while only (7.9 %) of participants had low knowledge on induced abortion. There is statistically significant association between the levels of knowledge on induced abortion with residence, number of children, education status (0.016), (0.005), (0.001) respectively however, no association found with other socio-demographic variables at p-value ˂0.05 level. This logistic regression analysis shows that education status is the only significant predictor of induced abortion. The model explains 28.9% of variance (Nagelkerke R²), with a good fit (Hosmer-Lemeshow p=0.911).
Conclusion: It can be concluded from the study that major reasons behind undergoing abortion were to unintended pregnancy and no time for child rearing as well as low economic status factor affecting induced abortion.
Keywords: Factor affecting, Induced abortion, women.
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