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- Title
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE NIŠ UNIVERSITY STUDENTS ABOUT EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION.
- Authors
Veljković, Milena; Radulović, Olivera; Veličković, Dragana
- Abstract
Emergency contraception is a treatment that used as an emergency procedure to prevent unwanted pregnancy after an unprotected sexual intercourse or contraception failure regardless of the point in the menstrual cycle. The most common method is the treatment with sexual steroids and the second-line form is the copper intrauterine device. A considerable number of female students of Nis were informed about the existence of emergency contraception. Younger generations (I/II years of sudy) were better informed than older generations (III/IV years of study): 81.6% vs. 57.5%. The difference was statistically significant (χ2 =7.91; p<0.005). The students of medicine were better informed than the students of art and science: 87.9% vs. 78.2% vs. 70.0% but there was not statistical difference. It is expected that adequate usage of emergency contraception will significantly reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. It is only emergency treatment and is not a substitution for regular contraception. Students are very important in the population of youth and it is expected that they could be optimally informed about this method of fertility control.
- Subjects
COLLEGE students; UNWANTED pregnancy; ABORTION counseling; EMERGENCY contraceptives; MENSTRUAL cycle; INTRAUTERINE contraceptives; BIRTH control
- Publication
Acta Medica Medianae, 2014, Vol 53, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
0365-4478
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5633/amm.2014.0103