Status of Reproductive Health Knowledge among Undergraduates and its Influential Factors
LI Guo-ju
LI Xiao-mei
LIU Song
HOU Yun-rong
LI Xiang-yun
Abstract： Objective: To survey the knowledge status of reproductive health among students in a medical college,and to analyze its influential factors,so as to provide evidences for education of reproductive health in university. Methods:The stratified random sampling study was based on the data collected from a medical college. The self-designed questionnaire was used to collect data after consulting several specialists. Results:A total of 2 500 individuals were interviewed,and 2 421 undergraduates actually completed the questionare. The proportion of effective questionaire was 96.84%. The average scores of the sexually transmitted disease (STD)knowledge and reproductive knowledge were 53.422 and 72.678,respectively. Multi-factor analysis showed that gender (the score in male was higher than that in female),grades (the scores in senior and junior were higher than that in fresh), specialties (the score in medical students was higher than those in non-medical students),and consumption levels (the score in those high-consumption students was higher than that in those low-consumption students)could be main influential factors. Conclusions:This study showed that the knowledges of reproductive health in undergraduates were different in different groups of gender,grades and specialties. The education of reproductive health in college(university)should be carried out in accordance with the different conditions of students.
Keywords：Student health servicesReproductive health servicesHealth knowledgeattitudespracticeQuestionnairesSex educationLogistic models
Publication Date：2013-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：4( 293-296 )