Determining factors of the practice of contraceptive methods between colleges students of the area of the health

• Autor(a) principal: Faray, Helone Eloísa Frazão Guimarães
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Mochel, Elba Gomide
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Rev Rene (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.ufc.br/rene/article/view/4864
• topic: Health of the woman; Contraception; Students; health occupations.

The objective of this research is to know the determining factors of the practice of contraceptive methods between college students of the health area. It was used a form with structured questions applied to (440) colleges students aged (18 to 24) of the Faculdade Santa Terezinha (CEST). The statistic analysis was accomplished through the program Epi-Info and by means of the qui-square test. Among the searched college students (66.7%) answered to have already started their sexual life. Most of the college students (41.9%) had started the sexual life at the age of (19 to 20) years; in the first sexual relation (65.2%) used some contraceptive method. The most commonly used method in the first sexual relation was the condom (80.3%). Currently (82.7%) of the colleges students are still using condoms. They say they know the condom and that they had no doubt about the method. They declared that 78.9% have 1 partner a year with about one or two sexual relations 56.9% per week. The university students do not have many partners, but they usually have sexual relations.