Background: Studying the knowledge and attitude of medical students towards emergency contraception, as they are the future medical professionals and they will serve as the main channel for providing proper knowledge and making positive impression of it in general population. The objective of the study was to assess the knowledge and attitude of undergraduate medical students towards emergency contraception. Methods: Medical students were given pre-validated questionnaire and divided in two groups. Group A students did not learn about emergency contraception, whereas group B students learnt about it. Interview of both groups were conducted separately. For group A, 1 hour seminar was conducted and after 7 days, same questionnaire was provided again for data collection. Results: 154 students were included in group A whereas 162 students in group B. Average knowledge and attitude was significantly increased after seminar in group A [knowledge 41±16.88% vs. 59.32±14.46%; P<0.05; attitude 36.24±10.93 vs. 41.5±10.87; P<0.05]. Average knowledge of group B students was 64.73±12.15% whereas average attitude score was 42.9±9.79. Amongst all, 86.4%, 87% and 89.3% students were not able to describe about emergency contraception, different methods and advantages of intra-uterine device as emergency contraception, respectively. There are 82.1% students showed positive interest in learning more about emergency contraception and 70.1% agreed to recommend its use in future. Students having good knowledge showed more positive attitude towards emergency contraception [r= 0.41, P<0.05]. Conclusions: Students have poor knowledge of special issues arises with emergency contraception. Proper attention should be given to these aspects during their teaching. Students have shown their positive interest to learn more about emergency contraception. Objective based seminar will be more helpful in improving knowledge and attitude.
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机译：背景：研究医学生对紧急避孕的知识和态度，因为他们是未来的医学专业人士，他们将成为提供适当知识并在普通人群中产生积极印象的主要渠道。该研究的目的是评估医学生对紧急避孕的知识和态度。方法：向医学生提供预先验证的问卷，并分为两组。 A组学生没有了解紧急避孕，而B组学生则了解了紧急避孕。两组访谈均分开进行。对于A组，进行了1个小时的研讨会，并在7天后再次提供了相同的问卷以收集数据。结果：A组154名学生，B组162名学生。A组研讨会后平均知识和态度显着提高[知识41±16.88％比59.32±14.46％; P <0.05;态度36.24±10.93和41.5±10.87; P ＜0.05]。 B组学生的平均知识水平为64.73±12.15％，而平均态度得分为42.9±9.79。其中，分别有86.4％，87％和89.3％的学生无法描述紧急避孕，子宫内装置作为紧急避孕的不同方法和优势。有82.1％的学生对进一步了解紧急避孕药具了积极的兴趣，而70.1％的学生同意在未来推荐使用紧急避孕药。具有良好知识的学生对紧急避孕药的态度更加积极[r = 0.41，P <0.05]。结论：学生对特殊问题的知识不多，这些都是紧急避孕药引起的。在教学过程中应适当注意这些方面。学生已经表现出对学习紧急避孕方法的积极兴趣。以目标为基础的研讨会将对提高知识和态度更加有帮助。
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