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| Survey on knowledge, attitude, and practice of free premarital examination for unmarried men and women in Shanxi province |
| 1.The Second People's Hospital of Shanxi Province, Taiyuan，Shanxi Province, 030012； 2.Shanxi Women and Children Health Care Hospital |
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Abstract To understand the current situation of knowledge, attitude, and practice of unmarried men and women after the implementation of free premarital medical examination in Shanxi Province, so as to provide decision making basis and policy suggestions for the government to further improve the premarital checkup work. Methods: 700 unmarried men and women from three cities of Shanxi province by purpose sampling were investigated by questionnaire. The basic informations of the respondents, the awareness of the free premarital examination policy, the cognitive attitude of premarital examination behavior, and the reasons influencing the participation of premarital examination of the respondents were investigated. Results: The respondents' awareness of free premarital examination policy in Shanxi province was not high, only 9.4% of them knew very well. The results showed that the score of barriers to premarital examination was 28.73±10.67 points (45 points of the total score). The overall evaluation score of premarital examination was 24.6±4.6 points (30 points of the total score). The cognitive score of the respondents on the benefits of premarital examination was 23.6±2.8 (25 points of the total score). And the first reason was "mutual trust between the two sides, but no necessary", accounting for 27.27%. Conclusion: In order to reducing the sense of barriers to participating in premarital examination, and attracting more unmarried men and women to participate in premarital examinations, the publicity of premarital examination policies should be strengthen further, the content of premarital examination services should be improved, and coordination among multiple departments should be enhanced.
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