Contraceptive Practice and Attitudes in Chungju Korea / 대한산부인과학회잡지

OBJECTIVE: We researched contraceptive practice and attitudes in Chungju, Korea by questionnaires. METHODS: We gave questionnaires to 316 reproductive women who visited Local Corporation Chungju Medical Center and public health center in Chungju city from August 2002 to December 2002. Items of the survey contained general characteristics, methods, level of satisfaction and side effects of contraception, contraceptive failure methods when failed. RESULTS: We studied questionnaires of 305 cases excluding questionnaires of 11 cases which were either incomplete or uncertain. Of the 298 cases who were not trying to get pregnant, 268 (89.9%) used contraceptive methods. The most common method was tubal ligation (23.2%), followed by condoms (21.8%), Intrauterine devices (17.1%), vasectomy (15.4%), periodic abstinence (8.1%), coitus interruptus (2.3%) and oral contraceptives (1.7%). In the 30-34 age group, the practice rate of contraceptive methods was the highest. Satisfactory rate of contraceptive methods was 76.9%. Intrauterine devices had the most frequent side effects. Of 305 cases, who practiced contraception, 70 (22.9%) cases failed and got pregnant and they commonly used periodic abstinence. CONCLUSION: In comparison with the past, practice rate of contraceptive methods increased. Because of the low efficiency of contraception, despite of high practice rate of them, women who had failed the contraception were considerable and the rate of artificial abortion was high. In order to overcome this phenomenon, it is necessary to induce efficient and correct practice of contraceptive methods through further definite and continuous education including oral contraceptives.

Contraceptive Practice and Attitudes in Chungju Korea / 대한산부인과학회잡지

OBJECTIVE: We researched contraceptive practice and attitudes in Chungju, Korea by questionnaires. METHODS: We gave questionnaires to 316 reproductive women who visited Local Corporation Chungju Medical Center and public health center in Chungju city from August 2002 to December 2002. Items of the survey contained general characteristics, methods, level of satisfaction and side effects of contraception, contraceptive failure methods when failed. RESULTS: We studied questionnaires of 305 cases excluding questionnaires of 11 cases which were either incomplete or uncertain. Of the 298 cases who were not trying to get pregnant, 268 (89.9%) used contraceptive methods. The most common method was tubal ligation (23.2%), followed by condoms (21.8%), Intrauterine devices (17.1%), vasectomy (15.4%), periodic abstinence (8.1%), coitus interruptus (2.3%) and oral contraceptives (1.7%). In the 30-34 age group, the practice rate of contraceptive methods was the highest. Satisfactory rate of contraceptive methods was 76.9%. Intrauterine devices had the most frequent side effects. Of 305 cases, who practiced contraception, 70 (22.9%) cases failed and got pregnant and they commonly used periodic abstinence. CONCLUSION: In comparison with the past, practice rate of contraceptive methods increased. Because of the low efficiency of contraception, despite of high practice rate of them, women who had failed the contraception were considerable and the rate of artificial abortion was high. In order to overcome this phenomenon, it is necessary to induce efficient and correct practice of contraceptive methods through further definite and continuous education including oral contraceptives.

Prevalence of Osteoporosis of Korean Women based on Bone Mineral Density of the radius and effect of menopause on osteoporosis / 대한산부인과학회잡지

OBJECTIVE: To determine the prevalence of osteoporosis based on the measurement of bone mineral density (BMD) and to examine the effect of menopausal status on BMD in Korean women. METHODS: Ultra-distal and distal radius BMD was measured by dual energy X ray absorptiometry (osteoplan p-DXA) in 296 women. The result was analysed, retrospectively. We diagnosed osteopenia and osteoporosis according to the WHO criteria. RESULTS: The ultra-distal and distal radius BMD and T score decreased significantly with increase of age. Of women in their thirties, the prevalence of ultra-distal and distal radial osteoporosis were 0%, 6.2%, and in their forties, they were 7.6%, 3.4% and in their fifties, they were 26.6%, 27.9% and of women in their sixties, they were 81.7%, 87.8%. Of women in their forties and fifties, premenopausal women had a higher BMD result than postmenopausal women in the same age group. Of premenopausal women in their forties, the prevalence of osteoporosis were 4.6%, 2.3% and of postmenopausal women in that age, they were 15.6%, 6.3%. Of premenopausal women in their fifties, the prevalence of osteoporosis were 8.3%, 8.3% and of postmenopausal women in that age, they were 29.9%, 31.3%. CONCLUSION: With increasing age, the prevalence of osteoporosis increased and the BMD decreased. In the postmenopausal state, this difference became larger.