dc.contributor.author | Ochola, S A | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-06-07T14:13:16Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-06-07T14:13:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1991 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Ochola, S.A(1991). Adolescent fertility: knowledge attitude and practices of out of school adolescents of reproductive health, contraception and their sexual behavior | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/11295/30183 | |
dc.description | Thesis | en |
dc.description.abstract | This study was based on a sample of 377 never
married adolescents (230 males and 147 females) attending
Youth Polytechnics in Busia District. This number
represented about half the total enrolment in those
institutions. The majority of the respondents (86.2%)
had only Primary School education. The main objective
was to establish their knowledge, attitude and practices
on contraception, their sexual behaviour, their knowledge
on reproductive health, their views on pre-marital sex
as well as their desired age at marriage and desired
family sizes. A knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP)
questionnaire was utilised for the survey.
The results revealed that the average age of males was
19.0 years while that of females was 18.0 years. The
majority (69.B%Y claimed that lack of school fees prevented
them from continuing with formal education while 15.4% of
the respondents cited poor academic performance as the
main reason for discontinuing their formal education. The
rest gave other reasons. Pre-marital sexual relations were
prevalent; 69.6% of the males and 39.5% of the females
were sexually experienced and 10.2%-of the girls interviewed
had been pregnant before. Multiplicity of sexual partners
was more evident among the males than the females.
(viii)
Contraceptive knowledge was moderate but contraceptive
prevalence was low. Only 9.0% of the respondents
were using effective contraceptive methods. Only 8.8%:
of the respondents were able to identify correctly when
conception is most likely to occur in a normal menstrual
cycle of a woman.
The majority of the respondents said that pre-marital
sex is bad but added that it was however difficult to
avoid. About 89.1% of them expressed a desire to be
taught or given more information on contraceptives.
Ignorance and misconceptions about contraceptives were
the main reasons for non use of contraceptives amone the
sexually active adolescents in the study population.
The mean desired age at first marriage in the study
population was higher than the current national mean age
at first marriage of 18.7 years and the desired mean
number of children for both sexes was less than four.
The knowledge of symptoms and signs of the common
sexually transmitted diseases was low as was the rate of
protection against sexually transmi.tted di.s eases. among the
sexually active adolescents. Ne ede.d contraceptive services
and health information and educational needs are discussed. | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.subject | Adolescents | en |
dc.subject | Fertility | en |
dc.subject | Knowledge | en |
dc.subject | Attitude | en |
dc.subject | Practices | en |
dc.subject | Out of school adolescents | en |
dc.subject | Reproductive health | en |
dc.subject | Contraception | en |
dc.subject | Sexual behavior | en |
dc.title | Adolescent fertility: knowledge attitude and practices of out of school adolescents of reproductive health, contraception and their sexual behavior | en |
dc.type | Thesis | en |
dc.description.department | a
Department of Psychiatry, University of Nairobi, ; bDepartment of Mental Health, School of Medicine,
Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya | |
local.publisher | College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi | en |