Conocimiento y uso del anticonceptivo oral de emergencia en estudiantes de la Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque, 2016: Knowledge and use of emergency oral contraceptives in students of the Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque, 2016

Knowledge and use of emergency oral contraceptives in students of the Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo, Lambayeque, 2016

Resumen

Objectives: To determine the level of knowledge and the use of emergency oral contraception in fifth and sixth cycle students of PedroRuiz Gallo National University in the city of Lambayeque. Methods: descriptive study of transverse type. Population students from fifthand sixth cycle of powers grouped into 4 areas with 1 514 students, was carried out a sampling stratified by proportional affixation being the final sample of 227 students. Instrument: survey type questionnaire autoaplicadas simultaneous anonymously in classroom, with informed consent. Results: students possess an intermediate knowledge of the oral emergency contraceptive 57,62% and the use of the same was referred by 37.6% of students who have already had sex, 73% had an adverse event after the use, the couple was suggested in the first use opportunity to 38.3%. Conclusions: the students have a level of acceptable knowledge of emergency oral contraception and the more than a third of them have already used at some time.