awareness of women about emergency contraception in urmia

awareness of women about emergency contraception in urmia     bahadori f [1] *, ayatolahi h [2] , yekta z [3] , fallahi v [4] , fallahi s4, mehdioghli r4     received: 12 mar, 2012 accepted: 25 may, 2012     abstract   background & aims : the aim of this study was awareness of women which were refer to family planning and kowsar center in urmia about emergency contraception.   materials & methods : this prospective and cross sectional study was carry out in family planning and kowsar center of urmia medical sciences university in west-azarbayjan in 2008 via 2009. a questioners were filled by medical students and demographic characteristic such as age, education, marital duration, parity and history of unwanted pregnancy.questions about type, effectiveness, previous using and source of their information about emergency contraception were written.awareness were divided to good (score ≥ 20), moderate (score 7-19) and poor (score ≤6). p - value was considered significant if ≤0.05.   result: the study comprised of 600 women. mean age of them and marital age were 29.8 ±7.2 and 19.7 ±3.2, respectively. the mean parity was 2.2 ± 1.6.88.8 % had poor, 9.8% intermediate and 1.8% good awareness about ec. awareness was positive related to academic education, history of unwanted pregnancy and didn't related to age, duration of married and parity.   conclusion: awareness of ecn in our study was very poor, so education of women is very important.   key words: emergency contraception, family planning centers, awareness     address: urmia street, kashani hospital, motahari, tel : (+98) (0441) 2237077   email: [email protected]   [1] prynatvlvzhy fellowship, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecologyurmia university of medical sciences (corresponding author)  [2] oncology fellowship, department of obstetrics and gynecology medical university urmi a  [3] associate professor, department of epidemiologyurmia university of medical science s  [4] urmia medical students faculty of medicin e