Alisa Tiro, Enita Nakas, Amra Arslanagic, Nina Markovic, Vildana Dzemidzic
Perception of Dentofacial Aesthetics in School Children and Their Parents
European journal of dentistry
unintended pregnancy major public health problem sexually active female students ethiopia higher education female students exposed unprotected sex risk pregnancy abortion associated problems objective study assess knowledge female students emergency contraceptives determine factors associated utilization among college female students bonga college education southwest ethiopia study conducted november 10 2022 may 30 2023 female students bonga college education departments included study purposively data collected using amharic version pretested questionnaire data obtained survey entered microsoft excel 2010 analysed spss version 200 data summary done descriptive statistics logistic regression used measure associations dependent independent variables odds ratio used measure strengths association variables statistical significance considered 95 confidence level cl pvalue less 005 considered significant analysis study total 103 college female students involved mean age respondents 206 sd 206 years finding showed 31 311 female students started sexual intercourse among 581 faced pregnancy among total sexually experienced respondents 935 use contraceptive methods others 65 use among total 31 study participants 27871 started using ec majority pregnancy 833 intended type whereas 167 unwanted pregnancy regarding general knowledge contraceptive methods 19184 poor knowledge among total 103 female college students 66641 heard emergency contraceptives forced sex unprotected free sex predicting factors induces female students use emergency contraceptives fear discontinuing school main inducing factor commit abortion logistic regression analysis showed college female students whose age category 25 years likely use emergency contraceptives students came urban area likely use ec rural areas married female students aor 25 95 ci 076 87 two times likely use ec contraceptive method female students came urban area use ec better came rural areas majority sexually active female students good practice knowledge using ec poor knowledge forced sex free sexual practice key determinant factors induces use ec abortion mainly done private clinic fear discontinuing school determinant factors identified commit abortion therefore responsible bodies develop strategies improve female students reproductive health related emergency contraceptives