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A Contraceção Oral de Emergência (COE) é o único método que pode ser utilizado após relações desprotegidas de modo a prevenir uma gravidez indesejada. Neste sentido é necessário averiguar os conhecimentos sobre COE em estudantes do Ensino Superior. Objetivos: caraterizar uma amostra de estudantes de uma Escola de Saúde segundo variáveis sociodemográficas, académicas e de atividade sexual; avaliar os conhecimentos acerca da COE na amostra e analisar os conhecimentos sobre COE segundo variáveis de caraterização. Estudo quantitativo, descritivo e analítico, em 257 estudantes com idades compreendidas entre os 18 e os 40 anos, 87,2% do género feminino e 12,8% do masculino. Questionário, com dados de caracterização e escala de conhecimentos de COE, aplicado ao 1.º, 2.º e 3.º anos dos cinco cursos de licenciatura e a todos os alunos presentes em sala de aula. A maioria dos inquiridos já conhecia a COE, embora com conhecimentos médios inferiores ao valor médio teórico da escala construída para o efeito. Os conhecimentos são em média mais elevados entre quem já iniciou a atividade sexual (83,3), 19,9% já tinham recorrido à COE e quase metade concorda com a sua utilização (44,2%), maioritariamente, para “evitar uma gravidez” por relações desprotegidas (22,7%). É importante que os estudantes do ES disponham de informação adequada para práticas sexuais saudáveis.
Oral emergency contraception (OEC) is the only method that can be used after unprotected sexual relations in order to prevent an undesired pregnancy. This way, it is needed to assess the knowleges on OEC in Higher Education students. Objectives: to characterize a sample of Health School students according to social and demographic, academic and of sexual activity variables; to assess the knowleges on OEC of the sample and analyze them according to characterization variables. Quantitative, descriptive and analytical study with 257 students with ages between 18 and 40 years, 87, 2% were female and 12, 8% male. Questionnaire with characterization data and a scale of knowleges on OEC, applied to 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the five bachelor degrees, and to all students in class. The majority of the students already knew OEC, although the average of knowleges was lower than the theoretical average of the scale built for that purpose. Knowleges are in average higher in those who had already begun their sexual activity (83,3%), 19,9% had already use OEC and almost half of the students agrees with it’s use (44,2%), most of them to prevent a pregnancy because of an unprotected sexual relation (22,7%). It is important that students in HE can have proper information to healthy sexual practices.
Oral emergency contraception (OEC) is the only method that can be used after unprotected sexual relations in order to prevent an undesired pregnancy. This way, it is needed to assess the knowleges on OEC in Higher Education students. Objectives: to characterize a sample of Health School students according to social and demographic, academic and of sexual activity variables; to assess the knowleges on OEC of the sample and analyze them according to characterization variables. Quantitative, descriptive and analytical study with 257 students with ages between 18 and 40 years, 87, 2% were female and 12, 8% male. Questionnaire with characterization data and a scale of knowleges on OEC, applied to 1st, 2nd and 3rd years of the five bachelor degrees, and to all students in class. The majority of the students already knew OEC, although the average of knowleges was lower than the theoretical average of the scale built for that purpose. Knowleges are in average higher in those who had already begun their sexual activity (83,3%), 19,9% had already use OEC and almost half of the students agrees with it’s use (44,2%), most of them to prevent a pregnancy because of an unprotected sexual relation (22,7%). It is important that students in HE can have proper information to healthy sexual practices.
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Contraceção oral de emergência Estudantes do ensino superior Conhecimentos
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Monteiro, Ana Margarida; Pires, Zuleica Alexandra; Pimentel, Maria Helena; Mata, Maria Augusta (2019). Contraceção oral de emergência em estudantes do ensino superior de uma escola de saúde. Adolescência: Revista Júnior de Investigação. ISSN 2182-6277. 6:1, p. 18-33