Sexual And Reproductive Health Knowledge And Attitude Among Adolescent Students
Date
2018
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Faculty Of Health Education
Abstract
The study entitled "Study on Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge and
Attitude among Adolescent students in Itahari Municipality, Tarahara, Sunsari
District" is conducted among 140 adolescent students. The main objectives of the
study were to find out and compare the knowledge and attitude of adolescent students
on sexual and reproductive health. After analyzing the data it shows that all of the
respondents were familiar about some degree of sexual and reproductive health. The
common source of getting knowledge on that is school/teachers, parents, magazines,
friends and course books.
Maximum respondents were familiar about SRH. Most of them said they have
experienced about physical change of weight and height. They know about
menstruation and it is the sign of puberty. Most of the respondents know about the
reproductive organs and reproductive system; likewise they have heard about
masturbation. They have negative attitude towards pre-marital sexual activities
because they think such activities have risk of various sexual disease like HIV/AIDS
etc. This study presents the current level of knowledge and attitude adolescent
students on sexual and reproductive health.
The study is plotted into five chapters. The first chapter of this thesis comprises
general background, statement of the problem, Significance of the study, objective of
the study, delimitation of the study and definition of the operational terms. Second
chapter deals with review of the related literature, empirical literature and conceptual
framework. Chapter three methodology is devoted to design of the study, sources of
data, population and sample, size, sampling procedure, data collection tools, data
collection procedure and data analysis and interpretation. Chapter four is related to
results and discussion. Chapter five presents the summary, conclusion and implication
.In the final section references and appendixes are included.
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Reproductive Health, Sexual Health Education