Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice about Emergency Contraception among Health Staff in Bushehr State, South of Iran
| Autor: | Mohammad Rayani, Fatemeh Najafi-Sharjabad, Abdollah Hajivandi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Adult
Male knowledge Health Knowledge Attitudes Practice medicine.medical_specialty Attitude of Health Personnel Cross-sectional study Health Personnel medicine.medical_treatment Developing country Iran law.invention Young Adult Condom Nursing law Surveys and Questionnaires medicine Humans Emergency contraception Medical prescription Young adult Contraception Behavior business.industry emergency contraception Bushehr Articles General Medicine Middle Aged practice Cross-Sectional Studies Family planning attitude Family Planning Services Family medicine Female Clinical Competence Contraception Postcoital business Unintended pregnancy |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier Global Journal of Health Science ResearcherID |
| ISSN: | 1916-9744 1916-9736 |
| Popis: | Emergency Contraception (EC) is used within a few days of unprotected sex to prevent an unintended pregnancy. About one quarter of pregnancies in south of Iran are unintended. EC is important option that women can use after unprotected sex or contraceptive failure for preventing of unplanned pregnancies and adverse maternal and perinatal health outcomes. Health staff have influence on women’s contraceptive behavior and their knowledge and attitudes about EC can affect women’s contraceptive behaviors. Data are lacking about the knowledge, attitude and practice of hormonal EC method among health staff in Bushehr state, south of Iran. A cross-sectional study using self administered questionnaire was conducted. A sample of 170 health staff were surveyed. The mean age of respondents was 30.6±5.1. Overall 6.5% of participants had poor knowledge, 25.2% moderate knowledge, 68.3% good knowledge about EC. Half of participants had positive and half had negative attitude towards the EC method. Midwives and family health workers were more knowledgeable (p |
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