Awareness of Family Planning among the Students of Women’s Degree Colleges of Kalaburgi City, Karnataka
Journal Title: National Journal of Research in Community Medicine - Year 2015, Vol 4, Issue 4
Abstract
Background: College girls are in reproductive age and are future mothers. So it is necessary to have health concern information about dimensions and magnitude of awareness towards family planning among these girls. Objectives: To study the awareness pertaining to various aspects of family planning among degree college girls. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among the total of 118 final year girls belonging to women’s degree colleges of Kalaburgi city. Data was collected from three women’s degree colleges from 15.09.2012 to 30.09.2012 in a pre-designed and pre-tested structured proforma. Results: In the present study, out of 118 students, 92.3% had relative opinion regarding family planning i.e. 30% opinion as promotion of health and family welfare, 13.6% as spacing between two children, 11% as prevention of child birth, and 29.6% had correct opinion regarding all the above components of family planning. 73.3% of students accepted ideal age at marriages for girls was 20-25 years, 70.34% of students accepted two children norms. 75.42% mentioned that interval between pregnancies should be 2-3 years. 86.4% of girls were aware of different family planning methods and among them 34.6% were aware of only terminal methods as methods of family planning and 60.4% were aware of spacing methods. Conclusion: Present study revealed that participants have good knowledge regarding family planning but timely knowledge gap restricts the female’s choice for the use of various contraceptive methods in the initial years of marriage.
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Amrutha Swati Indupall, Purushottam A. Giri, Bendigeri Nazir Ahmed
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