Assessment Of Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Emergency Contraceptives Among Female Students of Wolaita Sodo University
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2012-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Unwanted pregnancy which may lead to unsafe abortion is common among young adolescent
women. Unwanted pregnancy can occur due to missed pills, forced sex, method failures, and
condom breakage. To prevent such problem, Emergency Contraceptives are the only method that
can be used ajier unprotected sex. Therefore, this cross-sectional study aimed to examine the
level of knowledge, al/iludes, and Practice of emergency contraceptive pills among 330 young
female students of Wolaila Sodo University, and 10 determine factors associated with the
knowledge and acceptance of emergency contraceptive pill. A seif-administered questionnaire
was used as an instrument for data collection and for Statistical analyses percentage, mean,
standard deviation, bivariate and Binwy logistic regression was used. The findings of the study
revealed, the sample group comprised 62.4% of the students aged 17-20 and 37.6% aged
between21-25; 45.2% of the respondents had ever heard about Emergency Contraceptive; 28.5
% had good knowledge of EC, and 67.5% hadfavorable attilude toward EC. In the binwy
logistic analysis, some variables have become significant predictors of awareness of EC
including: discussion of reproductive issues with mother and jhend, induced abortion, chewing
'Khat', taking alcohol and mother 's education level. Finally, there is gap between knowledge
and al/itude among respondents so the study call for concerned bodies to take some important
measures such as; provision of continuous sex education, guidance and counseling services
especially during the first year and increasing easy accessibility of the Emergency Contraceptive
and other preventive methods to the users.
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emergency contraceptives among female