CONTRACEPTIVE KNOWLEDGE AND PERCEPTION AMONG SCHOOL GOING ADOLESCENT GIRLS IN INDORE CITY
Journal Title: Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 67
Abstract
The present study was undertaken to assess the knowledge and perception regarding contraceptives among the 1000 adolescent school going girls in Indore City. MATERIAL AND METHOD Based on a predesigned, pretested, and structured questionnaire contraception score was calculated for every girl. Effect of factors such as age, mother’s education, type of family, and type of school on contraceptive score was calculated. RESULTS Majority of girls belonged to mid adolescent group i.e. 86.6%. 66% belonged to English-medium private school and only 34% from Hindi-medium government school. Majority of girls lived in nuclear family (58.7%). 53.7% girls had average contraceptive score, 35.1% had good score. Only 11.2% had poor score. Late adolescent had a good score as compared to early and mid-adolescent. Girls whose mothers were graduate and postgraduate scored better. Girls in English-medium private school scored better .Most important source of information was television (29.2%) followed by mother (15.3%).
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Vaishali , Sonal , Chandra Jain
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