Avaliação do conhecimento sobre os contraceptivos orais entre as universitárias

The techniques used for birth control have advanced considerably in recent years due to advances in medicine, and today there are many types of hormone-based contraceptives available in the market that can generate many questions about its use. The analysis of knowledge of contraceptive methods, in most studies is made available in a very subjective and it cannot produce a true interpretation of the degree of knowledge about pregnancy prevention. This study aimed to analyze the difference in knowledge and attitude of the university in the areas of health, human and exact about the indications and contraindications of oral contraceptives. Furthermore, we intended to examine whether there was an increase in knowledge during the undergraduate course, comparing the students of the first and last period of the areas mentioned. This was an observational, cross-sectional, descriptive and used a self-administered semistructured questionnaire. The study was approved with the case number 088/2010 on Ethics in Research UNIFAL-MG and lasted from August 2010 to July 2011. We analyzed 302 questionnaires completed by the academic UNIFAL-MG. Regarding academic respondents, 49.3% use of oral contraceptives. However, there was a considerable difference between different areas and between both periods. Demonstrating that despite the university have better conditions of