Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Regarding Infertility among Child Bearing Age Females of Rural Community, Lahore
Journal Title: Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care - Year 2019, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Introduction: Introduction: Infertility is a worldwide issue that effects between 60 million and 168 million individuals around the world. It influences 13% to 15% of couples around the world. It puts a gigantic mental weight on the barren couple, particularly on the lady, and it might prompt despondency, self-destructive inclinations, and other pathological mental conditions. The restorative meaning of barrenness is the inability to imagine following a year of unprotected sex. Essential barrenness is the powerlessness to consider following 1 year of unprotected sex with no past origination (Abolfotouh, Alabdrabalnabi, Albacker, Al-Jughaiman, & Hassan, 2013). Methods: A descriptive Cross-sectional study design is used in this study because cross sectional study design provides a better understanding about any event or situation. The duration of the study is 4 months Sep, 2017 Jan, 2018. Study population for this research work is the child bearing age female of a rural community of Lahore. The total number of child bearing age female of Hussain Abad is 270 and number of infertile women is 168. Only infertile female are considered. Close ended questionnaire was designed, checked and used to access knowledge, attitude and practice of the participant’s towards infertility. Results: Response rate of this survey was not good and mean number of “Yes” answers to knowledge, attitude and practice questions were 46% and 42% respectively. Conclusions: Knowledge, attitudes and practice about infertility among adolescents was partial. Results of this study indicate lack of understanding about basics of preventive measures and prevention of infertility. The study had been determined the knowledge and attitude of people regarding infertility prevention. The level of knowledge was good among people but there was no significant association between attitude and practices regarding infertility prevention among the women. Moreover the people have poor practices toward infertility prevention. Furthermore factors (poverty,
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Mehvish Sabah, Nazia Bukhari, Muhammad Azhr, Umm-e- Habiba
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