Assessment of family planning knowledge in students of adolescent age group in various schools of Indore city Madhya Pradesh
Journal Title: The Journal of Community Health Management - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction Adolescent population is upcoming youth and they will take the responsibility of family in future Especially the female of this group faces the problems related with early pregnancy due to lack of knowledge or poor knowledge regarding family planning methodsObjectives To assess the awareness regarding family planning in adolescent age groupMaterials and Methods A crosssectional study was conducted on school students of adolescent age group with the help of Predesigned Pretested Semistructured questionnaire during the period between 01 April 2015 30 March 2016 Permission taken from school principal Simple random sampling for selection of school and Adolescent boys and girls was adopted A total of 1492 970 boys and 522 girls Adolescent boys and girls were included in the study The collected data were analyzed with the help of various tools and techniques to draw meaningful inferences and conclusionResults About reasons for not marring before right age of marriage responses increases with the age ie 639 772 and 881 in early mid and late adolescentrsquos girls respectively c2 826 pvalue lt 0001 Knowledge of contraception including emergency contraception out of 970 boys 418 know about the contraception and 583 donrsquotrsquo have knowledge Out of Total 522 girls 253 had knowledge about contraceptive measures and 747 does not know Opinion about abortion On comparing girls with boys percentage of students denying the abortion in case of unwanted pregnancy is almost same ie 48 in boys and 473 in Girls respectivelyc2 2398 pgt0001 Few numbers of girls were aware about the MTP and legal aspects of abortion as compare to boys ie 323 and 247 respectively c2 1015 plt001Conclusions Awareness regarding pregnancy is more in girls in comparison to boys while knowledge about emergency contraception is more in boys awareness about right age of marriage is increase with age It is necessary to give correct knowledge about family planning related matter at correct age to both girls as well as boysKeywords Adolescent Family Planning Knowledge School Student
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VP Goswami, Shailesh Rai
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