TY - THES TY - BOOK T1 - Knowledge, attitude and perception of contraception among undergraduate medical students in Universiti Putra Malaysia A1 - Nursyahira Mohd Ismail. LA - English YR - 2016 UL - http://discoverylib.upm.edu.my/discovery/Record/560378 AB - ABSTRACT Background: Unsafe abortion and maternal mortality that occur due to unintended pregnancy can be prevented by contraceptive use. Considering the future role of undergraduate medical students as family planning educators and counselors, their knowledge. attitude and perception towards contraception should be updated. Objective: To identify the knowledge, attitude and perception of contraception among undergraduate medical students in Universiti Putra Malaysia. Methodology: This was a cross sectional study using self-administered questionnaires consists of 4 sections; socio-demographic characteristics information, knowledge towards contraception, attitude towards contraception and perception of education and training in sexual and reproductive health among medical students, distributed among undergraduate medical students in Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and the data collected was analysed using Chi-square test and Fisher's Exact test in SPSS version 22.0. Results: The response rate was 100%. Most of the respondents in this study were Malay (64.4%), female (68.3%), single (98.6%) and live in urban area (69.1%). Most of their parents had tertiary education level (father educational level, 63.3%; mother educational level, 50%). 56.1% of the respondents had poor level of knowledge and 59.2% of them had negative attitude towards contraception. Regarding the perception on contraception, most of the respondents thought that they did not have enough clinical practice (50.4%) and training (57.6%) in counselling the patients for family planning service during their clinical posting. There was significant association between gender, place of birth, ethnicity, marital status and father educational status and level of knowledge. There was significant association between place of birth, marital status and ethnicity and level of attitude. Conclusion: There were a higher percentage of respondents who had poor knowledge and negative attitude towards contraception. There was significant association between gender, place of birth, ethnicity, marital status and father educational status and level of knowledge. There was significant association between place of birth, marital status and ethnicity and level of attitude. Keywords: Knowledge, Attitude, Perception, Contraception, Undergraduate Medical Students. NO - A second year (Package 11) project dissertation. CN - FPSK1 2016 44 ER -