SOME ASPECTS OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF MODERN ADOLESCENTS

Abstract

The aim of the work is to assess and analyze the state of reproductive health of adolescents.
Materials and methods conducted an anonymous survey of adolescent girls aged 15-18 years, we used a specially designed questionnaire. The study covered 60 respondents. The research methods were: medical-statistical, sociological, structural-logical analysis.
Results. We find that 86,7% of respondents know what reproductive health is, 63.3% of respondents receive information about reproductive health from the media, 43,3% receive information from doctors, 46,7% receive information from educational institutions, from newspapers and magazines -15% of respondents receive information, 35% receive information from popular science books about health, 18,3% of respondents receive information from friends and acquaintances. According to the analysis, 13,3% of adolescent girls in the age cohort of 15-16 years have sex, and adolescents aged 17-18 years – 36,6%. There is a direct relationship between the frequency of sexual life in the group of adolescent girls and the presence of genital diseases. According to the questionnaire violations menstrual cycle was noted by 68.3% of respondents. Analysis demonstrated that contraceptives with proven effectiveness are used only by 23.3% of adolescents aged 15-16 years.
Conclusions. The use of questionnaires allows to identify the main factors of reproductive health disorders in adolescent girls, to prevent early sexual life, unwanted pregnancies, the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections and to improve the mechanism of knowledge about a healthy lifestyle.