Premarital counseling clinic at Chulalongkorn Hospital
Reinprayoon, D.; Bunyavejchevin, S.
Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand 81(12): 993-997
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 0125-2208 PMID: 9916389 Document Number: 7377
This study aims to review the characteristics, sexual background, and the choice of contraception among premarital couples attending the premarital counseling clinic at Chulalongkorn Hospital in Thailand. The study recruited 200 couples attending the premarital clinic from July 1988 to January 1998, which had a counseling program that included medical counseling, sex education, and family planning counseling. Most of the participants had a bachelor's degree education and a Buddhist religion. 39% of males and 38% of females had an income of 10,000-20,000 baht per month. Some couples had abnormal physical examinations such as undescended testes and cases of varicococle. About 85.6% of men had sexual experiences before marriage compared to 23% of females. Most couples (71.5%) chose to have contraception, such as contraceptive pill (57.5%) and condom (20%). Findings suggest that premarital counseling should be adjusted to the background of the couples, and sex education should focus more on women since they have lesser sexual experience before marriage as compared to men.
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