ArticleMaternal and child health journal2008
Undergraduate student awareness of issues related to preconception health and pregnancy.
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- Reproductive Health Knowledge About Miscarriage: A Cross-Sectional Study of University Students.Maternal and child health journal · 2021Article
- Gender Stereotypes and Preconception Health: Men's and Women's Expectations of Responsibility and Intentions to Engage in Preventive Behaviors.Maternal and child health journal · 2019Article
- University students' awareness of causes and risk factors of miscarriage: a cross-sectional study.BMC women's health · 2018Article
- Knowledge on preconceptional folic acid supplementation and intention to seek for preconception care among men and women in an urban city: a population-based cross-sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2015Article
- Improving awareness of preconception health among adolescents: experience of a school-based intervention in Lebanon.BMC public health · 2014Article
- Determinants of the intention of preconception care use: lessons from a multi-ethnic urban population in the Netherlands.International journal of public health · 2013Article
- Pregnancy 101: a call for reproductive and prenatal health education in college.Maternal and child health journal · 2013Article
- Preconceptional care: a systematic review of the current situation and recommendations for the future.Facts, views & vision in ObGyn · 2013Article
- Preconception health: awareness, planning, and communication among a sample of US men and women.Maternal and child health journal · 2012Article
- A content analysis of preconception health education materials: characteristics, strategies, and clinical-behavioral components.American journal of health promotion : AJHPArticle
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Abstract
objectivesTo assess undergraduate student awareness of issues related to preconception health and pregnancy and to investigate gender differences.
methodsTwo-hundred forty-one undergraduate students (137 females, 104 males) completed a questionnaire designed to assess awareness of issues related to preconception health and pregnancy.
resultsOverall, students demonstrated a low to moderate level of awareness, correctly answering 64% of items. Individual student scores varied a great deal, ranging from 33% to 89% correct. Students who had previously taken a course containing information on pregnancy and/or child development correctly answered a greater percentage of items than those who had not taken such a course. Females had slightly, but statistically significantly, higher awareness scores than males. Students self-reported ratings of awareness of behaviors that are dangerous during pregnancy were associated with their composite scores on the questionnaire. Awareness across individual items varied a great deal. Students demonstrated a high level of awareness for substance use, a moderate level of awareness for sexually transmitted diseases and preconception care, and lower levels of awareness for folic acid, prenatal development, health, and pregnancy spacing.
conclusionsEfforts to improve preconception health should include increasing awareness of reproductive issues for both males and females. Existing efforts to provide information on reproductive health to students need to be expanded and new strategies developed. Particular attention should be paid to increasing awareness of the benefits of family planning, the early onset and rapid rate of organogenesis, the benefits of folic acid, and the importance of addressing health-related issues.
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