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Abstract
The aim of the study was to find out the basic health needs and problems of the married female students, and the extent to which such needs are covered by the university health services, as well as to predict the public health nuysing role in the gratification and solution of their health needs and problems. Finding ”out the magnitude of the married female university students in Alexundria was an important aim. The study was carried out’ ,on a purposive sample of married female university students the researcher met in , eleven different colleges of Alexandria university, both scientific and theoretical colleges. The sample covered 150 of the mar:cied students from whom the data was collected by a questionnaire. fhe data included personal data, socio economic e..nd biological features, student,. marital life data about the menstrual, obstetrical, as well as gynecol ogical history, data about the student’s practice of birth control and infant care practice. Date. about the university life practice, t~ health status and medical care as well as the neuI’otic tendency status of the .students were also identified (’the \iilloughby’s Neurotic tendency schedule). The study revealed that: , and the mean marriage durationwas2.67 years. I ’I 2- The mean family income was insufficient among more than one tenth of the students.. J- Consanguinity, was preseht in less than one quarter of the students marriages. I . 4.- The absenoe of adequate sexual informations before marr I iege was the t:cend among just less than one half of the students. 5- Schools and colleGes Viere the primalY source of sex Knowledge for the students enrolled in scientific c91leses. 6- Out of the married students, approximately one half of .. , them were mothers for an average of 2 children, of whom just less than one half were infants. 7- The private obstetrician was the main p:co~lider of the antenete,l care’ of the student s, VJitl1 a mean of 6.11 visits. , ’Ihe student s studying in scientific colleges Derformed more antenatal visits. . 8- The private mai:;enlity hospitals proved to be the main places of the student’s delivaries. Abnormal deliveries constituted 105; of the total delive”-~ies. 9- Obstetrical an4 gynecological compl~ints proved to be the primary complaints for which the studen~s seeked medical care, as they were complained of by nearly one half of the students. One quarter of students had pregne,ncy vvhich ended in abortion. 10- The practice of birth control, DMtlediately &fter marriage was the trend of more than one third of the students. 11- Most of the students used contraceptive pills, followed by the loops, ~hile the safe,per10d wa? the least contraceptive method used. 12- The advisor of t4e contraception tool was a non-medical . . . source among nearly one half of the users, while the rest consulted a medical source. 13- B:reast, ftoeding VIas practiced among two ,thirds of mothe:’,’J, and the insu.fficiency of milk secretion was the mai”n cause of artificial feeding. 14- Most of the mai’ried university students weaned t.heir infants gradua11y between 4-8thmonths of the infant age. 15- Of the student’s children, more th~~ one third of them have got one aT repeated attacks of gastroen~ritis, while just less than onetenth of them were affected by some sort of home accidEmt.’”V-accination was succer:sfully applied for all the children. 16.- Most of. the students attended their colleges the whole days of the week with a mean of six llO~lrs per day. 17... During college attendance, most of the student mothers were substituted by their mothers or mother in lav~in caring for chj.ldren, while the servant s:nd dny care centers cared for about 27