Examination of the level of knowledge of pregnant women of Legal regulations and Jurisprudence of Abortion and it's affective factors in Zabol in 1394

Pregnant women should examine their level of knowledge of legal regulations and jurisprudence about Abortion, because this knowledge is teachable and lack of sufficient teaching of regulations to pregnant women can imperil pregnant women’s health in future. This study aimed to examine pregnant women’s knowledge level of legal regulations and jurisprudence of Abortion in Zabol.
This study is a cross sectional investigation and 60 pregnant women have been studied using simple random sampling technique. To collect the data, the investigator-made questionnaire and to analyze data, SPSS22 software were used.
The results showed that from the overall population, 15 percent had high level of legal regulation knowledge and 65 percent had medium level of legal regulation knowledge also 11/67 percent had high level of jurisprudence knowledge and 78/33 percent had medium level of jurisprudence knowledge. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the education level and knowledge of legal regulations and jurisprudence. But there wasn’t a significant relationship between women’s knowledge of legal regulations and jurisprudence with variables of place of residence, income, employment status, age.
Regarding the study’s results, improving women’s knowledge level of legal regulations and jurisprudence of Abortion and providing necessary facilities and holding classes in order to acknowledge pregnant women of dangers of Abortion could be an important move to decrease abortion and mother’s death and gradually develop their quality of life.