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Morning after pill is used incorrectly, shows research in PE

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by Claudia Collucci
 

Research with 4,200 students between 14 and 19 years shows that 27% had used the morning-after pill. Of these, 78% did so wrong: they took the drug before intercourse, or by noting the delay of menstruation, for example.

The pill, which prevents the fertilization of egg by sperm, should be prescribed by the doctor and used within 72 hours after unprotected sex. The contraceptive method is offered by the SUS.

The study, conducted in 76 state schools in 44 municipalities in Pernambuco, published in journal of Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation), revealed that 35% of students had never received information about emergency contraception. And among those who received the main source were friends.

For the gynecologist Nilson Roberto de Melo, president of Febrasgo (federation of societies of obstetrics and gynecology), the high rate of ignorance about the pill is not surprising: "It is even expected. Many people use emergency contraception incorrectly because they do not receive appropriate information. "

According to the researchers and authors of the study, Maria Suely de Araujo and Laura Olinda Fernandes Costa, University of Pernambuco, four in ten respondents (44%) had initiated sexual life - 30.9% from 13 to 14 years .

Among those who have sex, 60% of boys and 24% of girls have reported having three or more partners. Most said to have used a condom at last sex.

Friend

Friends were cited as sources of information about emergency contraception than health professionals and teachers.

"The teenagers have resorted to friends, probably not prepared for it, and may have been distorted information. The most worrying, however, is the low participation of health professionals as agents of information," the researchers say.

They also found that young people find boring and uninteresting lectures held in the health services. "There is need to develop sex education and reproductive effectively facing adolescents in a language closer to their reality."

Nilson de Melo, the Febrasgo, agrees: "The sexual politics and reproductive health system are not focused on the young, which is a mistake because the fertility rate fell in all age groups except adolescents. It is a public deserves more attention. "

Sao Paulo

In Sao Paulo, partial data from a study that is being developed by the School of Public Health at USP also reveals the lack of adolescents in relation to the morning-after pill, less than 20% of them know that the method should be used in an emergency , for example.

According to the researcher Ana Maria Lefevre, one of the coordinators of the study, young people still do the "greatest confusion in the use of the pill." Lefevre also was not surprised by the survey data from the University of Pernambuco.

"In our study, boy was thinking that the pill is abortion, others think it is to come to menstruation and some even believe that it serves to get pregnant."

The survey of 300 adolescents heard USP Sao Paulo from 12 to 20 years and 60 health professionals to investigate the perception of the public on the method. To 8.3% of the interviewed professionals it serves as an abortifacient. "There is influenced by many issues, including religious, speaking on the opinions and decisions," says Lefevre.

The study also revealed that the vast majority of people interviewed are in favor of the pill, but they also do not know well it works. For 30% of men and 45.26% among women it serves simply to avoid a pregnancy.

Only 17.14% and 13.36% of them have said that this method should only be used in emergency situations.

For the gynecologist Nilson de Melo, many teens have used the emergency pill as a contraceptive common. "One of the most common side effects is the change in the menstrual cycle." In other words, it is almost impossible to calculate the fertile period.

Other symptoms are headache, breast tenderness, nausea and vomiting.


Source: Folha de Sao Paulo
 

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