目的:娱乐电视是一个有影响力的健康信息来源,包括生殖健康。我们调查了有关药物流产的电视情节与观众意识和对药物流产的信念之间的关联。
方法:我们从2021年12月至2022年1月进行了一项全国性的横断面在线调查,其中包括基于概率的出生时被分配为女性的人群样本。我们要求受访者从描绘药物流产的七个列表中选择他们看到的情节。在回答情节线项目的3,425人中,3,340对我们的结果措施做出了回应。使用加权多变量分析,我们研究了暴露于特定类型的流产情节与药物流产医疗安全性的认知和信念之间的校正关系.
结果:我们发现,与未接触药物相比,受众接触药物流产的情节是在诊所获得药物流产并将其描述为安全的,这与更高的药物流产意识有关(RR:1.68;95%CI:1.17,2.40)。暴露于将MA或自我管理的MA描述为安全的情节线与观众认为药物流产是安全的信念有关。
结论:这项研究表明,堕胎情节的内容和对准确信息的接触可能与观众对堕胎的认识和信念有关。
结论:在关于堕胎的误传中,观众接触到医学上准确的关于药物流产的电视情节可能是提高药物流产意识和影响药物流产安全信念的有效方法。
Entertainment television is an influential source of health information, including about reproductive health. We investigated the association between exposure to television plotlines about medication abortion on audience awareness and beliefs about medication abortion.
We administered a national cross-sectional online survey from December 2021 to January 2022 with a probability-based sample of people assigned female at birth. We asked respondents to select plotlines they had seen from a list of seven that portrayed medication abortion. Among the 3425 people who responded to plotline items, 3340 responded to our outcome measures. Using weighed multivariable analyses, we examined adjusted relationships between exposure to specific types of abortion plotlines and awareness of and beliefs about medication abortion medical safety.
We found that audience exposure to medication abortion plotlines in which the medication abortion was obtained from a clinic and portrayed as safe was associated with greater awareness of medication abortion compared to nonexposure (RR: 1.68; 95% CI: 1.17, 2.40). Exposure to plotlines that portrayed MA or self-managed MA as safe was associated with audience beliefs that medication abortion is safe.
This study demonstrates that the content of abortion plotlines and exposure to accurate information may be connected to audience awareness of and beliefs about abortion.
In a climate of misinformation about abortion, audience exposure to medically accurate television plotlines about medication abortion may be an effective way to increase awareness of medication abortion and influence beliefs about medication abortion safety.