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What Turkish women know about
emergency contraception?
Muruvvet Baser1, Salime Mucuk2, Evrim
Bayraktar3,
Tülay Özkan4, Handan Zincir5
ABSTRACT
Objective: To determine the knowledge of women about Emergency Contraception (EC) and its use.
Methodology: It is a descriptive cross-sectional study. Women attending the Family Planning Center, Kayseri during the three months (1600 women) were enrolled in this study.
Results: While 9.8% of the women had heard of EC, none of them had previously used it. The young, married, multiparous women and those who had higher education were more informed about EC (p<0.01). Among the study women (n=157) had heard of EC and 86 subjects knew EC have to be taken within 72 hour after unprotected coitus.
Conclusion: Many women hadnt had enough knowledge about Emergency Contraception (EC) and none of the women had previously used it.
KEYWORDS:
Emergency contraception, Women, Knowledge.Pak J Med Sci July - September 2009 Vol. 25 No. 4 674-677
How to cite this article:
Baser M, Mucuk S, Bayraktar E,Ozkan T, Zincir H. What Turkish women know about emergency contraception?. Pak J Med Sci 2009;25(4):674-677.
1. Muruvvet Baser, RN, PhD,
Associate Professor
Department of Nursing,
2. Salime Mucuk, RN, Msc,
Instructor, Department of Nursing,
3. Evrim Bayraktar, Msc,
Instructor,
Department of Nursing,
4. Tülay Ozkan, RN, Msc,
Instructor,
Department of Nursing,
5. Handan Zincir, RN, PhD
Instructor,
Department of Nursing,
1-5: Erciyes University Atatürk School of Health,
Kayseri-Türkiye.
Correspondence
Muruvvet Baser, RN, PhD,
Associate Professor
Department of Nursing,
Erciyes University Atatürk School of Health,
38039, Kayseri-Türkiye.
E mail: mbaser_8@yahoo.com
* Received for Publication: April 21, 2009
* Revision Received: April 23, 2009
* Revision Accepted: July 10, 2009
*Presented at 5th International Congress of Reproductive Health & Family
Planning, April 19-22, 2007, Ankara, Turkey
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