SOCIAL AND MEDICAL FACTORS OF STUDENTS’ REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH FORMATION
Nowadays the problem of formation of reproductive health of youth is rather burning. The research work with specially designed questionnaire using quantitative methods was held. Men and females aged 15-25 years living in Samara and Samara region: students of colleges and universities, high school seniors were chosen as respondents. Sample size: 296 respondents. Our research proves that a great number of young people doesn’t pay much attention to the reproductive health and they don’t consider this problem to be an urgent one. According to the report almost a half of the surveyed youth (48,9%) doesn’t care about its reproductive health. The ones thinking about this problem say that to be healthy they need to lead a healthy lifestyle, to do sports, to avoid early sexual relations, unexpected pregnancy and etc. That means that a lot of people actually know what reproductive health is but their knowledge about the mechanisms and ways of its conservation and strengthening is primitive. Not a big percent of respondents(about 14%) understands the importance of medical control of the condition of reproductive system to preserve health.