Intervening factors in health care professionals' attitudes and behaviours towards comprehensive abortion care in the workplace: a comparative case study of Tanzania and Ethiopia.

Purpose: Health care professionals' attitudes and behaviours play a fundamental role in the provision of timely comprehensive abortion care as a maternal health intervention and save hundreds of thousands of women's lives, annually. This study explores underlying factors influencing Tanzanian and Ethiopian health care professionals' attitudes and behaviours towards comprehensive abortion care between 2015 and 2020.

Materials And Methods: The study inductively explored Ethiopian and Tanzanian health care professionals' behaviours using a comparative case study design and a textual analytical approach.