{"doi":"10.1371/journal.pone.0286703","title":"Predictors of intention to provide abortions after OB/GYN residency training","abstract":"INTRODUCTION: Abortion is a common gynecological procedure and plays a central role in women's health and autonomy. To maintain accessibility to abortion, it is important that sufficient obstetrics and gynecology (Ob/Gyn) residents intend to provide abortion care after residency. This study identifies factors that influence a resident's intention to provide abortions (IPA) post-training. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A multiple-choice survey, addressing demographics, religious background, residency program metrics, training experience and intent to provide abortions (IPA), was answered by 409 Ob/Gyn residents. Chi-square test was performed on descriptive statistics and continuous variables were tested with ANOVA with p<0.05 considered significant. RESULTS: Residents with IPA were predominantly female (p = 0.001), training in the Northeast and West (p<0.001), identifying either as non-religious, agnostic/atheist or Jewish (p<0.01), not actively practicing their religion (p<0.001) and leaning democrats (p<0.002). Those with IPA were more likely to train at hospitals without religious affiliation (p<0.008), to train at a Ryan Program (p<0.001), to place strong emphasis on choosing a program with family planning training (p<0.001), to join programs where a significant portion of the faculty performs abortions (p<0.001) and to have completed a higher number of first trimester medical and surgical abortion procedures during the last six months of training (p<0.001). CONCLUSION: These results suggest that factors influencing a physician's intention to provide abortions are multifactorial, involving personal and program factors. A model predicting IPA is derived. To maximize IPA, residency programs can increase abortion volume, facilitate additional training and build a supportive faculty.","journal":"PLoS ONE","year":2023,"id":388445,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":1,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9434,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2023-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":717815,"name":"Sarah Ottum","orcid":"0000-0002-8729-1095","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1150045,"name":"Conrad R. Chao","orcid":"0000-0003-1107-8703","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1157985,"name":"Aliye Runyan","orcid":"0000-0002-3723-5247","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":772120,"name":"Benjamin Rappolee","orcid":null,"position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1005729,"name":"Sandra Sadek","orcid":"0000-0001-5789-017X","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":1158390,"name":"Noor E. Jannat","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":246007,"name":"Maurice‐Andre Recanati","orcid":"0000-0003-0974-3962","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":717814,"name":"Katherine J. Kramer","orcid":"0000-0002-4759-194X","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":18,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-19T01:18:18.214733Z","pmid":"37384613","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}