Awareness for some contents of reproductive health, family planning of the community at the ereas of the model implementation of quality population

ABSTRACT

Subjects: 295 adolescents, youths, women at reproductive age who were study subject 1, and 104 health care staffs, specialists and population collaborators of the commune called as study subject 2. Results: for the topics of reproductive health/family planning (RH/FP): the knowledge of RH/FP was at 76.7% to 87.8%. However, there was still considerable number of women infected with RTIs (23.7%). The rate of women having more than three children was 21%. Drug addiction (13.2%) and other social evils (12.2%) among study participant 1 was rather high. The need of information, education on population/RH/FP defined by study participants 1 and 2 was high (84.4% and 87.5%, respectively). There was a great attention to antenatal care by study subject 1, particularly to antenatal checks (97.6%), antitetanus vaccination (95.6%), and iron pill intake (94.2%). In addition, 66% of participants were aware of risks to pregnancy and 93.6% prefer public health deliveries for care.