目的通过调查和分析庄河市农村育龄妇女对紧急避孕的知晓等情况,为推广“十一五”农村计划生育紧急避孕适宜技术和提高紧急避孕技术在农村育龄妇女中的使用率提供依据。方法采用整群多级随机抽样的方法在庄河市18个乡镇,118个村抽取18~45周岁的2 434名育龄妇女,采取现场问卷的方式进行基线调查。对调查后的数据进行统计分析。结果未婚育龄妇女对紧急避孕的知晓率为36%,已婚育龄妇女的知晓率为74.8%。调查前育龄妇女获取紧急避孕的途径是基层计生工作者的宣传、报纸、电视、宣传栏等。结论未婚人群紧急避孕的知晓率低,应加强这部分人群的宣传教育,以提高知晓率;易于被群众接受的宣传途径应大力推广。 Objective To investigate and analyze the awareness of emergency contraception among rural women of childbearing age in Zhuanghe City to provide evidence for promoting the appropriate technology for emergency contraception in rural family planning and the utilization rate of emergency contraception in rural women of childbearing age . Methods A total of 2,443 women of childbearing age from 18 to 45 years old were collected from 18 townships and 118 villages in Zhuanghe City by multistage cluster sampling method. The questionnaire was used to conduct baseline survey. After the survey data for statistical analysis. Results The awareness of emergency contraception among unmarried women of childbearing age was 36% and that of married women of childbearing age was 74.8%. Before the survey women of childbearing age to obtain emergency contraception is the way of grass-roots family planning workers propaganda, newspapers, television, billboards and so on. Conclusion The awareness rate of emergency contraception for unmarried people is low. Publicity and education of this group of people should be strengthened to raise the awareness rate. Publicity channels that are easy to be accepted by the masses should be popularized.