Survey on reproductive health status of Shanghai college students / 中华男科学杂志
National Journal of Andrology
;
(12): 744-747, 2005.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-339436
ABSTRACT
<p><b>OBJECTIVE</b>To explore reproductive health condition of college students in Shanghai and provide scientific basis for reproductive health education.</p><p><b>METHODS</b>From July 2004 to March 2005, 1192 college students (majors including medicine, science and engineering, arts and culture; 618 medical students and 549 non-medical; 555 male and 612 female) from seven time-day colleges in Shanghai were investigated with a reproductive health questionnaire involving sex. The questionnaire was constituted by 72 topics, involving the need of education, sex attitude, sex videos, sex hygiene knowledge and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), etc.</p><p><b>RESULTS</b>39.33% (459/1167) students thought they had accepted formal sex education; 49.19% (574/1167) students chose lecture as the favorite way; 41.90% (489/1167) students thought the reproductive health education would not increase the incidence of premarital sexual behavior; 64.10% (748/1167) students thought it was necessary to give college students reproductive health instructions and knowledge. On the other hand, we found 45.05% (250/555) boys and 27.45% (168/612) girls could accept the premarital sexual behaviors; 35.32% (196/555) boys and 39.38% (241/612) girls could accept premarital pregnancy; 44.39% (518/1167) students could calculate the safe period accurately; 71.38% (833/1167) students knew emergency contraception measures; 57.67% (673/1167) students knew how to and when to use condoms; To our surprise, only 2.19% (12/549) non-medical students and 12.14% (75/618) medical students knew exactly the whole 4 sexually transmitted diseases that needed to be essentially prevented in China.</p><p><b>CONCLUSION</b>At present, the reproductive health condition of college students in Shanghai is sophisticated. Much more education on sex safety, self-protection skills and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) knowledge, etc should be reinforced.</p>
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Sex Education
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Students
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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China
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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Surveys and Questionnaires
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Sampling Studies
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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
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Reproductive Medicine
Type of study:
Qualitative research
Limits:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
National Journal of Andrology
Year:
2005
Type:
Article
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