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PubMed1999

Emergency contraception: change in knowledge of women attending for termination of pregnancy from 1984 to 1996.

OBJECTIVE: To compare the knowledge of emergency contraception in women attending hospital for termination of pregnancy in 1984 and 1996. DESIGN: A questionnaire survey. SETTING: Ninewells Hospital, Dundee. SUBJECTS: Cohorts of 100 consecutive women undergoing termination of pregnancy in 1984 and 1996. RESULTS: Over this 12 year period, there has been a significant improvement in the knowledge of emergency contraception. Seventy three per cent had a good knowledge of the postcoital pill in 1996 compared to 12 per cent in 1984 (p=</=0.0001). There has been a significant rise in the use of condoms (60 per cent vs 32 per cent; p=</=0.001) and the number of conceptions due to condom accidents (38 per cent vs eight per cent; p=</=0.0001). Although most women in the 1996 cohort recognised a reason for contraceptive failure and had adequate knowledge of emergency contraception, only 17 per cent considered the possibility of pregnancy. CONCLUSION: Poor knowledge of postcoital contraception is no longer a major factor leading to the failure of women to obtain emergency contraception. Improved uptake in the use of emergency contraception is likely to result from a greater awareness of the possibility of condom failure and easier availability of the postcoital pill.

Abortion, Induced↗
PubMed1992

Fearing to give life.

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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1994

Family welfare and health practices increase after exposure to population education.

Since 1987, the State Resource Center of Jamia Millia Islamia of New Delhi has been implementing a program which integrates population education contents into its literacy education classes for adult learners. Using the core messages on family size, spacing of children, responsible parenthood, right age of marriage, population-related beliefs and customs and population and development, the Center undertook many activities such as: i) integrating population contents in literacy primers, readers and supplementary reading books; ii) development of teaching aids and instructor's resource materials; iii) organization of training for instructors and iv) holding outreach activities such as street corner plays, fairs, etc. To evaluate the impact of the program, the Center undertook an impact survey to measure the level of knowledge, attitude and practices of randomly selected beneficiaries of the project, i.e. 934 learners from 85 literacy learning centers, 5 years after the introduction of the population education program. The study used pre-test and post-test method for collecting data and to compare results. In terms of practice, the study has shown that the respondents having knowledge about family planning methods increased from 67 to 87%, after being exposed to the project's activities. There was also an increase of 61% in cases adopting family planning methods over the pre-measurement level. More importantly, there was not only an increase in awareness of public health and family welfare services but a 137% increase was registered in the use of public health and family welfare facilities for family planning counseling and services. With regard to knowledge and attitude on the various population education messages promoted by the project, the study has shown a 40% increase in "high" knowledge category and 25% increase in favorable attitude after the exposure to the project.

Asia↗
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Songs and drama.

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Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome↗
PubMed1992

A longitudinal evaluation of computer-assisted instruction on contraception for college students.

This study assessed changes in contraceptive knowledge of 58 white female undergraduate college students following use of a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) program on contraceptive methods. The CAI program consisted of a personal-computer-based instructional lesson covering facts about and appropriate use of oral contraceptives and barrier methods, and myths about sexuality and sexually transmitted diseases. Baseline contraceptive knowledge was first compared with 171 white female undergraduate students. This comparison indicated that, overall, there were knowledge deficits regarding the safety of oral contraceptives and what to do if oral contraceptives are not used correctly. At immediate posttest, significant knowledge gains were observed for danger signs associated with using oral contraceptives, the rationale for triphasic and biphasic pills, potential medication synergism, health benefits of using oral contraceptives, potential contraceptive effect of withdrawal, and the reasons women stop using the pill. At six-month follow-up, students evidenced long-term knowledge gains on duration of pill use, the rationale for triphasics and biphasics, appropriate contingencies for missing two days of the pill, danger signs associated with using contraceptives, medication synergism, and health benefits of using oral contraceptives. The results of the evaluation are considered in the context of the widely held assumption that young women's contraceptive failure is unrelated to knowledge deficits about methods of birth control.

Adolescent↗