Prevalence, Attitudes, and Factors Motivating Conscientious Objection toward Reproductive Health among Medical Students.

Objective:  We have evaluated the prevalence of and the motivating factors behind the refusal to provide reproductive health services and the ethical knowledge of the subject among medical students from the Escola Bahiana de Medicina e Saúde Pública, in the state of Bahia, Brazil.

Methods:  The present cross-sectional study involved 120 medical students. A questionnaire was utilized.

[Competences acquired during medical training and the opinions and attitudes about abortion].

Purpose: To analyze and compare the knowledge, attitudes and opinions of medical students about abortion in Brazil during the progression of the course.

Methods: This was a cross-sectional study involving 174 medical students. A questionnaire was applied whose dependent variables were degree of information about abortion, including its legal aspects in Brazil, situations in which the students would agree with the expansion of permitted legal abortion, knowledge of someone undergoing abortion, and discomfort about performing the procedure legally.

[Clinical predictors of asymptomatic bacteriuria during pregnancy].

Purpose: To estimate the prevalence of asymptomatic bacteriuria among pregnant women attended at our university prenatal care clinic and to identify probable clinical predictors.

Methods: Across-sectional study was carried out from August 2008 to October 2009 at the Bahiana School of Medicine involving 260 pregnant women without symptoms of urinary tract infection. The following exclusion criteria were considered: presence of clinical signs such as fever, dysuria, vesical tenesmus, lumbar pain, history of active genital bleeding or loss of amniotic fluid, use of antimicrobial agents in the 30 days prior to sample collection, and refusal to participate in the project.