[Survey on reproductive health status of Shanghai college students].
OBJECTIVE
To explore reproductive health condition of college students in Shanghai and provide scientific basis for reproductive health education.


METHODS
From July 2004 to March 2005, 1192 college students (majors including medicine, science and engineering, arts and culture; 618 medical students and 549 non-medical; 555 male and 612 female) from seven time-day colleges in Shanghai were investigated with a reproductive health questionnaire involving sex. The questionnaire was constituted by 72 topics, involving the need of education, sex attitude, sex videos, sex hygiene knowledge and sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), etc.


RESULTS
39.33% (459/1167) students thought they had accepted formal sex education; 49.19% (574/1167) students chose lecture as the favorite way; 41.90% (489/1167) students thought the reproductive health education would not increase the incidence of premarital sexual behavior; 64.10% (748/1167) students thought it was necessary to give college students reproductive health instructions and knowledge. On the other hand, we found 45.05% (250/555) boys and 27.45% (168/612) girls could accept the premarital sexual behaviors; 35.32% (196/555) boys and 39.38% (241/612) girls could accept premarital pregnancy; 44.39% (518/1167) students could calculate the safe period accurately; 71.38% (833/1167) students knew emergency contraception measures; 57.67% (673/1167) students knew how to and when to use condoms; To our surprise, only 2.19% (12/549) non-medical students and 12.14% (75/618) medical students knew exactly the whole 4 sexually transmitted diseases that needed to be essentially prevented in China.


CONCLUSIONS
At present, the reproductive health condition of college students in Shanghai is sophisticated. Much more education on sex safety, self-protection skills and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) knowledge, etc should be reinforced.
Chen
Bin
B
Department of Urology, Renji hospital, Shanghai Second Medical University, Shanghai Institute of Andrology.
Wang
Lu-ping
LP
Wang
Hong-xiang
HX
Han
Yin-fa
YF
Zhao
Xiao-ming
XM
Ma
Qing-liang
QL
Sun
Jie
J
Chen
Xiang-feng
XF
Huang
Xu-yuan
XY
Wang
Yi-xin
YX
Huang
Yi-ran
YR
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000517:prevention & control; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002681:China; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018456:Reproductive Medicine / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012494:Sampling Studies; D012736:Sex Education / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012749:Sexually Transmitted Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires