Abstract
To inquiry the status of in awareness, behavior and attitude of sexual and reproductive health of college students in Guangzhou city, and to provide scientific basis for the promotion and education of sexual and reproductive health in college. An investigation was carried out on this issue. Questionnaire survey was used as mainly method that involved 608 students form five universities as respondents. Feedback data show that students had better awareness of condom use (92.60%) and contraception in physiological safety period (61.51%), but had lower awareness of subcutaneous implantation (4.6%), emergency contraception (28.13%) or partial short-acting oral contraceptive (30.59%). Some knowledge of syphilis (89.64%) and gonorrhea (69.41%), but lack of knowledge of condyloma acuminatum (28.61%), non-gonococcal urethritis (17.10%), vaginitis (26.64%) and other venereal diseases. Lack of specific skills to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, only 25.33% of students know the correct use of condoms. College students' knowledge of sexual and reproductive health is not optimistic, and there is a certain misunderstanding of knowledge, to prevent unintended pregnancy, prevention of sexually transmitted diseases and other related skills are far from enough. Colleges and universities should strengthen the publicity and education of sexual and reproductive health knowledge of college students, enhance their consciousness and ability of youth health, and ensure their physical and mental health.
Highlights
With the development of social economy and modern media information technology, people's sexual concept is increasingly open, and premarital sexual behavior is accepted by more and more people [1,2,3]
College students are at the keen time of sexual activity, and they are faced with sexual and reproductive health problems such as sexual demand, sexual behavior, pregnancy, abortion and sexually transmitted diseases in the process of opposite-sex interaction and love, which have aroused wide social concern [4,5,6]
In order to provide scientific basis for the promotion and education of sexual and reproductive health in Guangzhou universities, this study investigated the status quo of sexual and reproductive health cognition among Guangzhou
Summary
With the development of social economy and modern media information technology, people's sexual concept is increasingly open, and premarital sexual behavior is accepted by more and more people [1,2,3]. Due to the lagging state of sex education in China, college students generally have a low level of mastery of relevant knowledge and skills [12, 13]. It is an urgent and long-term and arduous task to provide necessary knowledge of sexual and reproductive health for college students, strengthen the training of contraception, STD prevention and other related skills, enhance the reproductive health awareness and ability of college students, and form the correct concept of sexual and reproductive health . College Students in Guangzhou City university students through questionnaire survey
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