Knowledge and Attitude Towards Family Planning A Case Study of Shree Tika Vidyashram Secondary School Students at Sanepa, in Lalitpur district

Abstract

The research entitled “Knowledge and attitude towards family planning”. (A case study of Shree Tika Vidyashram Secondary school students of Lalitpur Sub Metropolitan City at Sanepa in Lalitpur District) was carried out by using the primary data collected in the field survey. This field survey includes a total 108 students of class 8, 9, and 10. Among them33 were class 8 by non-random sampling (census) method and 37 students from class 9 and 38 student from class 10. Out of total student, 21 were boys and 12 were girls in class eight likewise 21 were boys and 16 were girls in class nine and in class ten there were 17 boys and 21 girls.

The main objective of this study is to examine the knowledge of family planning to identify the attitudes toward family planning and examine the opinion of secondary level students on use of contraceptives in future.

From the research it was found that majority parents of students were engaged in business (26.9%) and household work (31.9%) majority parents had got education up to primary level only. It was found that no body was married. 100 percent respondents were unmarried for both sexes. It was found that about 55.9 percent boys had heard about female sterilization and condom whereas 54.2 percent girls had heard about condom (65.3%) and (59.2%) girls were heard about female sterilization. Similarly, 55percent were heard about pills. The girls were found to have heard periodic abstinence (2.0%), which was traditional method. But the boys were unknown about traditional method. But the girls were ahead of boys in regards to the knowledge of modern methods of family planning.

This study 81.5 percent student was found to have good attitude toward pills while about 48.2 percent supported injectiables. Similarly, 76.6 percent had positive attitude toward condom but 4.6 percent had knowledge about IUD, which was not positive attitude toward IUD method. In open-ended question what is the family planning. Majority 68.5 percent respondents were given reply the family planning is birth control and 0.9 percent said that saving women’s life.