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Amanda E Bryson1, Michelle Oberman2, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann3
1Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Objectives:
This study aimed to assess clinicians' confidence in helping adolescents access abortion.
Study Design:
This study used a 2024 cross-sectional, online survey of US adolescent-serving clinicians.
Results:
Less than half of the 188 clinicians reported high confidence in their ability to help adolescents navigate seven of 11 logistical aspects of abortion access. Participants in states with post-Dobbs restrictions were less confident than those in states without such restrictions in their ability to help adolescents find abortion providers, know what documents are needed for appointments, and interpret their state's laws.
Conclusions:
Many clinicians lack confidence in helping adolescents navigate abortion access, particularly clinicians in states with post-Dobbs restrictions.
Implications:
Clinicians' lack of confidence in helping adolescents access abortion, regardless of state-level abortion laws, is concerning, given adolescents' reliance on clinicians for reliable abortion information. Interventions must be developed across all states to increase clinician confidence in their ability to support their patients' abortion access in the post-Dobbs shifting legal landscape.
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