Perception of Importance of Premarital Counseling among Medical Students of Tanta University, Egypt | ||
| The Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine | ||
| Article 8, Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 66-75 PDF (382.45 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejcm.2019.30917 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: In Egypt utilization of pre-marriage counseling and testing (PMC) is still limited. Objective: To identify knowledge and attitude of medical students towards PMC. Method: A cross sectional study at Tanta Faculty of Medicine on 379 students using a predesigned questionnaire. Results: The majority admit that PMC can detect hereditary diseases (79.4%) and sexually transmitted infections (73.8%). Among participants, 76.2% were willing to use free PMC and 18.8% expressed awareness of premarital investigations. Only 49.7% knew about places providing PMC. Concerning level of information, 27.6% of participants did not have enough information about PMC. The main sources of information were mass media (31.8%) and internet (30.0%). The main reason for not utilizing PMC was not to interfere with “Allah will”. More males (12.5%) think that PMC may delay marriage as compared to 5.1% for females. Students with consanguineous parents showed significantly higher level of knowledge than those whose parents were not related. Conclusion: Students had good perception of the importance of PMC but they did not knew the places and investigations of PMC. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Premarital Counseling; Medical students; Egypt | ||
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