| dc.description.abstract | The study was to investigate the factors influencing the implementation of reproductive health
education in public secondary schools in Uriri District, Migori County. The study was
investigated through the following objectives; to establish the extent to which the school
curriculum influence the implementation of reproductive health education in public secondary
schools, to determine the extent to which school management influence the implementation 0
reproductive health education, to investigate how teachers influence the implementation of
reproductive health education, to establish the extent to which resource materials influence the
implementation of reproductive health education and finally to determine how school sponsors
influence implementation of reproductive health education in public secondary schools. This
study is to help students acquire health education knowledge, enhance wellness behavior,
promote healthy situations, facilitate helpful relationship and enable students make responsible
decisions. Health instructions help learners to develop resistance skills when appropriate,
promote protective factors, ensure resilience in terms of the ability prevent or recover fro
sickness. The research will experience limitations of non response from respondents, error or the
potential of substituting a sampling unit in the field. The study will be limited to all public
secondary schools in Uriri district. The study assumed the school administrator allowed the
teachers and the pupils to participate in the study, representative sampled, instruments valid and
reliable, and respondents were to give information honestly and directly. Literature has been
discussed in terms of school curriculum, school management, teachers, resource materials and
school sponsors. The study was conducted through descriptive research survey and correlation
research design to examine and describing the associations and relationships between two
variables. 17 public secondary schools with 30 school managers and 120 teachers were targeted
and a sample size of 108 was picked. The targeted population was stratified according to wards
the school managers and teachers were sampled then a complete census was applied to get 150
respondents. The data was collected through self administered questionnaires. The data collected
was presented using the chi-square tables basing on the research hypothesis. Quantitative data
was analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) version 19 both for windows,
while qualitative data was presented by way of narration. It was found out that there was
significant relationship between the curriculum, teachers, resource materials, school management
and to some extent the school sponsors with implementation of reproductive health education.
Due to results of the study, it was recommended that reproductive health education to be; taught
and examined, mainstreamed in the curriculum, teachers to be trained. Thus, a study to be
conducted to establish factors promoting adolescents pregnancy in the country and another study
to establish low uptake of reproductive health services among adolescents in Kenya. | en_US |
