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New Medical Journal
1978 Volume.21 No. 2 p.115 ~ p.126
A Comparative Study on Understanding and Attitude toward Family-Planning of Unmarried Women in Busan


Abstract
This author from June to September, 1977 conducted a study on the knowledge and attitude toward family-planning with 842 non-married women who both were high school and college graduates, senior of 3 colleges and universities in Busan. This study done by means of questionnaire method for approximately 3 months resulted in the following findings: 1. The subjects ranged in age mostly from 19 to 24, and 80% of them were high school graduates and 91.2% college students and graduates. 79. 4% of the former group and 83. 8% of the latter were those from big cities including Seoul and Busan. 2. The number of brothers and sisters of the subjects were: 4.5 for the former, and 4.1 for the latter on an average. 3. The subjects responded to question of the ideal age of marriage were as follows: 74.7% of the former and 79.0% of the latter held the age of 24~26 as ideal: and they also responded to the question whom they were consulting with about their future marriage as follows: 61.6% of the former and 57.5% of the latter with their friends of same sex. 4. 53.7% of the former and 52.5% of the latter were acquiring their informations on sex by way of periodicals and weeklies, and on infections of V. D. and its preventive measures 47.2% of the former and 33.2% of the latter by way of the newspapers and periodicals. 5. With respect to the family planning itself 68.9% of the former and 73.7% of the latter expressed their agreements. And as to the reason of their .favorable responses, 46.0% of the former and 37.5% of the latter pointed out the fact that the family planning contributes to the desirable education of children (or home education). 6. These two groups were known to be obtaining their knowledges in the family planning mostly through mass media: 87.6% and 85.0% of them respectively through the newspapers, radios, magazines and T.V. s, etc. None of the former were acquiring the knowledge from the lectures and technical sources like journals: only small minority of the more educated latter group were gathering the informations from the above sources: 3.5%. 7. Two babies were considered ideal number of the children by both groups. These young ladies were conforming with the prevailing tendency of a preference for a small sized family by expressing their willingness to give birth to no more babies with even only two daughters: 51.7% of the former and 55.6% of the latter. In case of with three daughters 70.5% and 75.3% did not want any more baby respectively. 8. 76.1% of the former and 73.3% of the latter were found to want their first babies at the age of 24~26. As to the necessity of the family planning ideal, and happy home life was rated the most important factor: 73.9% and 76.6% respectively. 9. Regarding the informations on the contraception both groups were found informed to some degree: that is, they were informed of 3.9 repertoires on an average. Of them tubaligation was the first method known to 73.4% of the former younger group and the method utilizing the rhythm of menstrual cycle was the first one known to the 71.2% of the latter group. 10. These ladies seemed to be interested also in the technical terms of various concrete methods: 63.2% of the former group and 64.0% the latter respectively had good understanding in them, responding to the right answers to the questions asking correct responses. Of these 78.6% and 78.4% of them respectively had correct knowledges in permanent birth control methods, and 77.5% and 77.2% were correct in their understanding of the condom method as the one available without physician´s help. The number of girls with understanding about the birth control pill was exceptionally low:only 22.5% of the former group and 25.7% of the latter had the concrete knowledge in the oral pill.
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