Reproductive Health Education of Conscripts in Turkish Armed Forces: First Evaluation of Training Courses

Abstract

Training courses seem to succeed in increasing the knowledge of conscripts, particularly of those with a low socioeconomic and cultural status. However, it requires time to determine whether this increase in knowledge level with promote behavioral change positively and will improve young males' own and their partners' reproductive health status.

Do contraceptive choices of Turkish married adolescents differ from those of older women?

“…There is an ongoing effort in promoting condom use in Turkey. Military service is obligatory for all Turkish men and in the frame of the Reproductive Health Programme of the Turkish Armed Forces a 1-day participatory interactive course on reproductive health including the model practice of condom use is given to all soldiers in every garrison 16 . It appears that knowledge among male participants thereby markedly improves.…”