Testing awareness of fertility and reproductive health among unmarried medical students at Cairo University.
| Autor: | GamalEl Din SF; Andrology & STDs Department, Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt., Saleh WF; Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Urologia [Urologia] 2021 Aug; Vol. 88 (3), pp. 242-246. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jun 10. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0391560320928642 |
| Abstrakt: | Aim: We aimed in this survey to assess fertility and reproductive health awareness among medical students. Methods: A total of 354 female and male final year medical students (193 females and 157 males) were recruited for this survey at the Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, who attended the lectures of the andrology and sexually transmitted disease department. Results: Our study demonstrated that the mean ages of the female and male medical students when they want to have their first child were 26.95 ± 2.924 and 28.7 ± 3.94, respectively, and and p = 0, while the mean ages of the female and male medical students when they want to have their last child were 32.5 ± 3.2 and 34.7 ± 5.1, respectively, and p = 0.001. Our study demonstrates that a majority of the female and male medical students moderately estimated the efficacy of the assisted reproductive technique to take a baby home, and the means of their estimation were 42.620% ± 12% and 43.5% ± 13.1% and p = 0.482. Moreover, our study showed that 75 (39.1%) females were convinced that vaginal delivery has a potential negative effect on the sexual functions. However, 99 (51.6%) females did not see any potential negative effect of vaginal delivery. In addition, 18 (9.4%) females responded in an indefinite way to this question. Finally, our study demonstrated that 145 (92.4%) males rejected the proposal of vasectomy. Conclusions: Interestingly, our study revealed increased estimation by the participants of the efficacy of the assisted reproductive technique to take a baby home, despite the fact that they were medical students who had already studied the subject of gynecology in their fifth year and should have estimated it properly. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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