Contraceptive practice of University Students
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چکیده
In this study, conducted a survey to examine the relationship among sexual attitude, sexual knowledge, optimistic bias of venereal disease and contraceptive practice in university students. The data were collected via structural questionnaires completed by 148 university students located in Cheonan who agreed to participate in this study. There was a statistically significant positive correlation between sexual knowledge and contraceptive practice, and there were positive correlations among pleasurable sexual attitude, responsible sexual attitude, and contraceptive practice. Also, there was a statistically significant positive correlation between permissive sexual attitude and pleasurable attitude. Regression analysis was used to determine the influence of contraceptive practice and to identify its correlation with sexual knowledge, sexual attitude and optimistic bias of venereal disease. Explanatory power for contraceptive practice of the independent variables is found to be 15.6%.Among these variables, sexual knowledge were the most influence on contraceptive practice.
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