Educational status on contraception in medical students
C. Demir,
S. Buyukkurt, O. Kadayifci, M. Onbasioglu, I.F. Urunsak, A.B. Guzel
University of
Cukurova School of Medicine, Adana, Turkey
Objective We wanted to evaluate,
prospectively the educational status on contraception in our medical student
population.
Design and methods We prepared a questionnaire which interrogates
the source of contraception knowledge and asks some questions to evaluate the
educational status. We randomly selected the students in every class in
University of Çukurova School of Medicine and invited them to answer these
questions.
Results Three hundred fifty three students had accepted to answer
the questionnaire. One hundred and fifty one of the students who had answered
the questions (42,78 %) were female and 252 (57,22 %) were male. Mean age was
20,60 ± 1, 82. Three hundred fourteen (88,95 %) students answered that they
had some knowledge on contraception and the major sources for their knowledge
were school and friends. Condom is the leading choice for their contraception
(84 %) and condom is a well known contraceptive method in our study population.
They choose condom, because it’s cheap and easy to use. Emergency contraception
is not a well known method in our study population. One hundred eighty eight
(53,26 %) of the students have no idea about this method. Intrauterine device
and oral contraceptive pills are commonly used methods for contraception; but
they are not well known in our study group as well.
Conclusions Our study
population has a critical importance because medical students will be the health
care providers in the future but now they are adolescents and they need health
care. We should carefully manage the education on contraception in medical
schools not only for the students but also for the public health.