Madiha Afzal, Uzma Aziz, Saima Qurban.
Knowledge, Attitude and Practices of Emergency Contraceptive Methods in Female patients Attending Gynae OPD at Arif Memorial Teaching Hospital: a Cross Sectional Survey.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;13(2):484-89.

Aim: To assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of emergency contraceptive methods in female population of child bearing age at Arif Memorial Hospital. Study Design: Hospital based descriptive cross sectional survey Settings and duration of study: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Unit 1, Arif Memorial Hospital, Mustafabad from November 2018 to April 2019 for a duration of 6 months. Methodology: All married females of age 18 years to >41 years, presenting to our OPD were enrolled in the study after taking their consent. All the information was collected on a questionnaire which included information about demographic features along with questions to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices of emergency contraceptive methods. Non probability convenience sampling technique was used and data was analyzed using SPSS 23. Results: Out of 377 women included in the study, 323 respondents responded positively showing a response rate of 72%. 38% respondents belonged to the age group of 26-33. 80% of our study population belonged to rural area, 95% being Muslims and 35.3% having an educational status between Primary-Matric. In this study, only 20% females had heard about EC while 80% were unaware about it. Finally 70% females who had heard about emergency contraceptive methods mentioned pills as their method of EC. Conclusion: The findings of study showed that majority of respondents were having poor knowledge of EC and this area still needs a lot of improvement in Pakistan in order to give better awareness about EC. The attitude of respondents was positive towards EC. Even then people need further education /counseling in order to deal with different myths and misconceptions about EC to have better practice of EC methods, as according to the findings of present study females rarely practice any method of EC because of poor knowledge and those who are aware of emergency contraceptive methods, they were using pills for EC.

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