ISSN: 2167-0420
						Yohannes Fekadu
	
					    												Wolkite University College of Medicine and Health Sciences, 
Wolkite
Ethiopia						                            
                            
						
 Research Article
												Knowledge Attitude and Utilization of Emergency Contraception among Health
Science and Medical Students of Arba Minch University, 2015 						
Author(s): Yohannes FekaduYohannes Fekadu             
						
												
				 Introduction: Emergency contraception refers to contraceptive methods that can be used by women to prevent   an unwanted pregnancy in the first few days after unprotected intercourse or contraceptive accident such as   leakage/slippage of condom. It is important to prevent unwanted pregnancy and there by induced abortion. There for   this study aimed to assess the knowledge attitude and practice of emergency contraceptive among Arba Minch   University health science students.
Methods: Cross-sectional quantitative study was conducted from July 21, 2017 among female health science   and medicine students of Arba Minch University. Self-administered structured and pre-tested questioner was used to   obtain information from 216 study participants who were selected by population proportional systematic random   sampling technique. After data collect.. View More»
				  
												DOI:
												 10.4172/2167-0420.1000383