Survey to assess attitude and practice of reproductive health among the female patients
Journal Title: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CURRENT RESEARCH - Year 2018, Vol 10, Issue 8
Abstract
Introduction: Reproductive health of women is essential to produce healthy citizen to thenation. Good reproductive health is important for women’s general health and wellbeing. Objectives: The study objectives were to assess the attitude towards reproductive health among women, to assess how the women were practice reproductive health and to find out the association between the attitudes of reproductive health among women with selected variables. Methods: A survey research design was adopted to assess the attitude and practice of reproductive health among the female patients in multispecialty hospital, Puducherry. Totally, 500 patients who were satisfied with the inclusion criteria involved in the six month of data collection period. The tool consists of three parts that is demographic variables, five point likert’s scale, multi response question related to practice of reproductive health. The data were collected by face to face interview method in regional language. Results: The study findings shows that mean value for attitude on reproductive health was 9.8 with standard deviation of 2.245. Out of 500 patients, 246 (49.2%) of women used old cotton cloth material during menstruation, 424 (84.8%) told that they change the undergarments daily. They make one of sunlight for drying the inner garments about 322 (64.4%), 264 (52.8%) dispose the napkin by bury and burn method. 256 (51.2%) does not follow any taboos during menstruation. Conclusion: The concluded few of them had favorable attitude regarding the reproductive health and satisfactory practice. They need education awareness program to improve their attitude and practice of reproductive health.
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Dr. Kumari, M. J.
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