Introduction: Unwanted pregnancy is a serious consequence for women who experience sexual violence. Although deciding on abortion is frequent in these cases, there is not much information on women who give up abortion in this circumstance.
Objective: To analyse the associated factors in abortion withdrawal of sexual violence pregnancy. Pregnant women who gave up abortion after receiving the procedure approval were included and, in another group, pregnant women who completed the abortion. The variables were selected from a digitized database and analyzed using SPSS The outcome was abortion withdrawal. The analysis used Wald's chi-square test?
Results: The study included women, Age ranged from years, mean Among those who gave up abortion, In logistic regression, the only significant variable was the known perpetrator, increasing the victim's chance of giving up abortion twice.
Conclusion: The known sex offender has influenced the woman or adolescent's decision to give up legal abortion. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Juridical aspects of the attention to victims of sexual violence: questions and answers for health professionals. World Health Organization. Department of Reproductive Health and Research. Safe abortion: technical and policy guidance for health systems. Uruguay: World Health Organization; ; p. Souza CM, Adesse L.
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