Attitudes, opinnions and behaviour of young people on reproductive health from the institutions of higher education from Chișinău

Abstract

Introduction: Reproductive health is internationally recognized as a fundamental component necessary for human development, on which the general health of population, prosperity and the development of all countries depends. Reproductive health is a priority field of the WHO, which in 2001 developed the European Strategy in Sexual and Reproductive Health and suggested that all 51 countries-members 51 de of the European Council should elaborate similar strategical document saccording to the national specific. Aims and Objectives: Evaluation of attitudes, practices and sexual behaviour of young people, including: influence of the sexual education received in the family on sexual behaviour; knowled geon sexually transmitted infections and HIV/AIDS; opinions and attitudes about appropriate sexual behaviour and detection of risks associated to sexual experience; contraception and pregnancy;- is a primordial basis of family planning. Methods: Doing this research we used the historical, mathematical, statistical, epidemiological, sociological, comparative analyze methods. This research collected information from Register of the National Bureau of Statistics, which included information from the official documents and some information from the researches in the field 216 students from 4 institutions of higher education from Chisinau participated at the research. 16.6 % of the participants are boy sand 83.3 % girls, all of them 18-30 years old. Their average age is of 24 years. Results: 39.09% of the young confirmed that they have never discussed with the parents on topics related to sexuality. 51.86% of the respondents didn’t know that HIV/SIDA, gonorrhoea and syphilis are sexually transmitted infections. Approximately 40.0% of the sexually active young had more than 1 partner during last year. 76.47% of the respondents don’t use regularly condoms, 40.0 % of which have never used them. About 20% of the sexually active people presented risks associated to anterior aborts. Conclusion: From the analysis of the sexual behaviour and the opinions of the young people we have concluded that there is a number of risk factor for their reproductive health. We haven’t found significant difference between the behaviour of students from different institutions, only knowledge in the held of lT-Sand contraception varies, prevailing at USMF “NicolaeTestemitanu”.