title: [Investigation of reproductive health status and service needs among unmarried young men in Changshu].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the status of pre-marital reproductive health education, sexual psychology behavior, contraception and pre-marital abortion in unmarried young men to get the correct way for pre-marital guidence and education.
  
  
  METHODS
  The survey adopted the society-psychology-behavior methodology. Five hundred and ten objects who had pre-marital sexual living history were investigated randomly.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The reasons of making sexual pre-marital relations were thinking marriage and curiosity. 81.2% of them thought the best way of contraception is to use the condom. 34.8% of them used the prevenception when they had the first sexual experience. 39.7% of the objects adopted contraceptions every time, and 27.1% of the objects made the women pregnancy which resulted 22.4% women using the IUD for contraception. 63.6% of them thought the main reason of not using contraception was the fear to get trouble. The main source of contraceptives was pharmacy (59.8%).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This survey suggested that the prevalence of pre-marital sexual behavior is relatively high in Changshu. It should be taken several methods to give unmarried young men the reproductibe education.
authors.affiliation: Changshu Institute of Reproductive Hygiene Research, Changshu, Jiangsu 215500, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Ping
authors.initials: XP
authors.lastname: Zou
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011593:Psychology, Social; D018456:Reproductive Medicine; D012725:Sexual Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D012847:Single Person