Evaluation of the post-abortion care services for unmarried female college students’ reproductive health effect / 中国学校卫生

ABSTRACT

Objective@#To understand the influence of post-abortion care (PAC) on the reproductive health of unmarried female college students,and to provide scientific basis for reproductive health education.@*Methods@#A total of 486 unmarried female college students who received artificial abortion voluntarily due to unwanted pregnancy and had complete follow-up data were investigated by questionnaires before and six months after the operation from July 2017 to June 2018 in the Tongde hospital of Zhejiang Province.@*Results@#There were 248 patients with abortion history, including 15 patients with abortion frequency ≥3 times.72 cases of high-risk abortion, the high-risk factors were re-abortion within half a year and the number of abortion ≥3 times; After PAC intervention, the awareness rate on menstruation and ovulation knowledge, scientific contraceptive knowledge, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases knowledge(types of diseases,raltes of transmission and preventive measures), and the harm of abortion knowledge(short-term and longterm complications), was higher than before(χ2=21.42, 69.65, 71.09, 52.80, 63.25, 187.59, 356.02, P<0.05). Before intervention, only 53.7% (261/486) of female college students used medium and low efficiency contraceptive measures, only 0.4% (2/486) were high-efficiency contraceptive measures. After intervention, all of them used contraceptive measures, The rate of effective contraceptive measures in the immediate and six months after operation was 85.4% (415/486) and 68.3% (332/486) respectively, which was significantly higher than before(χ2=786.10, P<0.05).@*Conclusion@#PAC service for female college students can improve awareness rate of sexual and reproductive health, enhance effective contraceptive measures, reduce the risk of repeated abortion.