Contraception among female students in the University of Benin

Abstract

QESTIONNAIRES WERE distributed amongst a randomly selected sample of 400 female under graduates of the University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria with the aim of finding out their degree of aware ness of, attitude to, and use of contraceptives. The mean age of the studied population was 19.6 years. 360 (90%) were single. 372 of them (93%) were aware of contraception, 192 (48%) had used one form of contracep tion or the other, and 104 (26%) had had one or more abortions at the time of the study. Of these 104, 62 (or 60.8% of them) had used no form of contraception prior to the pregnancy. The most dreaded side effect of contraception among the population studied was infertility.