ISSN Print 2713-0878
ISSN Online 2713-0886
BIOMEDICAL JOURNAL OF ERMC EASTERN EUROPEAN
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Awareness of reproductive health protection issues among female students
About authors
1 Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Moscow, Russia
2 N.N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical University, Voronezh, Russia
3 Institute of Demographic Research — Branch of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IDR FCTAS RAS), Moscow, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Elena V. Skoblina
Fotiyevoy ul., 6, str. 1, Moscow, 119333, Russia; moc.liamg@modanilboks
About paper
Author contribution: all authors contributed to manuscript preparation equally.
Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Commitee of Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (protocol No. 159 dated November 21, 2016) and conducted within the framework of the research project (R&D project national number АААА-А19–119021890068–7, February 18, 2019); the study did not endanger the participants and complied with the principles of biomedical ethics; the informed consent was obtained for all subjects.
Received: 2022-01-21
Accepted: 2022-02-27
Published online: 2022-03-30
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The study was aimed to define the female students’ awareness of the reproductive health protection issues. A survey was conducted in 2021–2022 in order to study the onset of menstrual cycles and age at menarche in 372 female students of medical and non-medical universities and colleges of the Central Federal District. The survey of 530 female students concerning their knowledge about the reproductive health protection issues and their attitude towards sexuality education for children and adolescents was also conducted. Statistical processing was performed using the Statistica 10.0 software package (StatSoft, USA). Insufficient knowledge about the reproductive health protection issues among students was reported: the contingency coefficient for the presence of real menstrual disorder and the students’ belief of having problems was low (Pearson contingency coefficient = 0.31, р ≤ 0.05).
Keywords: menstrual function, female students, reproductive health care