Identifier: TFG:2504
Authors: Launes García, Cristina
Abstract:
Sexual intercourse is taking place earlier among young people but, despite the use of contraceptive methods, there continues to be a high number of voluntary pregnancy termination (VTP). Although hormonal contraceptive methods are more effective, these are the least used, therefore, it is necessary to encourage their use. For this purpose, the decision-making assisting tools (EAPD) have appeared in recent years, which help the patient to make a better decision along with the healthcare professionals. The objective of this paper is to identify the knowledge of URV students regarding contraceptive methods and assess whether an EAPD is useful in changing the contraceptive method to a more effective one. In order to do this, a bibliographic review was carried out first and then a quantitative study. Later, a target group consisting of nursing and child education students was selected and they carried out a survey on hormonal contraception and how they assessed the use of the EAPD of "Shared decisions." The results obtained show that condoms and oral combined hormonal contraception (COC) are the most known and widely used. However, people do not know the most effective method, such as long acting reversible contraception (LARC). The EAPD did not promote a change of method for the satisfaction they already got with the one previously used. In conclusion, there is very basic knowledge about hormonal contraception and hence information about them should be delivered in order to demystify the side effects and the insecurity that people associate with them.
Repositori URV