| Journal Call no. | R644.H63J573 |
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| Author | Lee, S. W. H. |
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| Article Title | Women's knowledge of and attitudes towards emergency contraception in Hong Kong : questionnaire survey / S.W.H. Lee ... [et al.]. |
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| Is Part Of | Hong Kong medical journal ; v.5, no.4, Dec 1999, p.349-352, illus. |
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| Abstract | The article studies the level of knowledge of and attitude towards emergency contraception in two hundred women who requested the termination of an unplanned pregnancy between May 1997 and March 1998. The result shows that a substantial proportion (33.0 percent) of women were ignorant of the existence of emergency contraception. Only 10 percent of women had used emergency contraception before and only 2.5 percent had used it in an attempt to prevent this pregnancy. Of the 134 women who knew about emergency contraception, the main reason (41.8 percent) for not using it was risk-taking behaviour. More nulliparous women (88.5 versus 57.6 percent; P<0.001) and women younger than 20 years (84.0 percent versus 61.3 percent; P<0.01) had heard of emergency contraception. Women who were educated beyond secondary school level (71.0 percent versus 37.5 percent; P<0.01) and unmarried women compared with married, cohabiting, or divorced women (87.1 percent versus 49.5 percent; P<0.001) were also more likely to have heard of emergency contraception. Women younger than 20 years were more likely to have used this form of birth control in the past (18.0 percent versus 7.3 percent; P<0.05). In conclusion, there is a need to imporve women's education about emergency contraception in Hong Kong. |
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