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Background@#Reproductive health (RH) education in the Philippines has yet to realize the aspirations of the Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012, based on trends reported by the National Demographics and Health Survey (2013 and 2017). @*Objectives@#This paper report on a subset of data collected from 2016 to 2017 for a research that aimed to describe what a set of eight grade students learned about reproductive health through their knowledge and attitudes towards family planning and related topics. @*Methodology@#The findings come from a subset of a 63-items survey administered online, highlighting sexual health knowledge, sexual health practices, sexual health attitudes, and quality of RH education. The study used a four-question quiz adapted from the World Health Organization questionnaire, Illustrative questionnaire for interview-surveys with young people, which eight graders are expected to know. Sexual health practices and attitudes, and quality of reproductive health classes were adapted from the New Brunswick Students' Ideas about Sexual Health Education instrument. @*Results@#The results showed that only nine percent of respondents (both male and female) answered all questions correctly in the WHO four-question quiz. There was marked difference between male and female responses in the sexual health practices and attitudes questions; most respondents who reported sexual activities also reported not using contraception (65.22% for males and 12.5% for females). Ten percent indicated never having RH education classes, with 52% only having had zero to one RH education classes. @*Conclusion@#Overall, findings suggest there are several variables that preclude successful RH education. Thus, other sources of education can be explored and integrated into the curriculum, such as the home, the community, media, and even peers.
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This study aimed to determine attitudes towards reproductive health among young university students who will be playing important role as future healthcare professionals. This was a cross-sectional descriptive study. The research population consisted of 1126 individuals and the research sample was 1096. The study data were collected by using two forms “Information Form” and Reproductive Health Scale (RHS). The students’ mean age was 21.11±1.91. Nearly of the students (78.6%) were females, 75.5% of the students had information about reproductive health, 59.4% of them had obtained information through the mass media, and the female students were much better informed than the male students. The RHS mean score was 139.66±23.58 and 60.5% of the students obtained ascore above the mean. Being female increased the scores for the sub-dimensions of Partner Selection and Values in Developing Preventive Behaviors. The results of this study show that the attitudes of the young people studying at the College of Health towards reproductive health were generally positive, but that they were not adequately reflected in their behaviors. Conclusion and recommendation: Further research is needed to reveal why the knowledge and attitudes of the students did not lead to appropriatebehaviors
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Aims: Fertility desires among persons living with HIV (PLHIV) could have important HIV prevention and demographic implications particularly in high prevalence settings such as Cameroon. There is a paucity of data on fertility desires and associated factors among PLHIV in Cameroon. The aim of the study was to determine whether HIV positive women desire having children so as to improve on the sexual and reproductive health messages and services provided to them. Study Design: This was a facility based cross-sectional study. Place and Duration of Study: Regional Hospital Limbe (RHL) HIV treatment centre between May and June 2014. Methodology: Systematic sampling was used to select 250 women between the ages of 15–49 years as they consulted at the clinic. Participants were recruited and data collected using an interviewer administered questionnaire. Results: Mean age was 32 years and 75.9% were sexually active. In this study, 51.4% were not married while 48.6% were married. Fertility desires was high (83.3%) and child bearing after HIV diagnosis was common (48%) with 71.2% of them not going in for preconception counseling. In multivariate analysis, older age (OR: 20.895, 95%CI: 5.3-83.5), not using condom (OR: 30.021, 95% CI: 3.4-262.6) and not being married (OR: 4.87, 95%CI: 1.4-17.6) were having a significantly higher chance of desiring children in future. Majority of WLWHIV (86.9%) indicated a need for RH education. Fertility desire (OR: 11.013, P=.001), previous RH discussions (OR: 7.49, P=.001) and knowledge of PMTCT (OR: 3.647, P=0.021) were the best predictors of RHE need. Conclusion: A substantial number of WLWHIV attending RHL HIV treatment centre desire having children and there is unmet Reproductive Health Education needs for these women. There is need to sought new strategies to address reproductive health care services so as to satisfy reproductive health care needs of HIV positive woman in Cameroon.
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Background: Adolescence is a life’s crucial transition phase with establishment of reproductive capacity. Sexual experimentations and lack of Reproductive Health information during this phase expose adolescents to serious health threats. Adolescents should have access to scientific Reproductive Health information to develop healthy attitude towards Reproductive Health issues. This study was undertaken to find out attitude of adolescent school students towards Reproductive Health Education and to identify communication pattern regarding reproductive health issues. Methods: The study was cross sectional and carried out on 500 Adolescent Higher secondary school students in Solapur city. Pre-tested & Self-administered Questionnaire was used for collection of data. Results: This study showed that students had favourable attitude towards Reproductive Health Education as majority (84.8%) of them recommended Reproductive Health Education in school curriculum. Lecture by expert was noted by 47% students as desired method of imparting Reproductive Health Education. Regarding Reproductive Health issues, 52.4% students preferred to communicate with Doctors/Health Workers followed by friends (35.6%). Conclusions: Our study stressed the need of providing correct scientific information to adolescents regarding reproductive health by incorporating Reproductive Health Education in school curriculum.
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affects the sexual desire and acitivity. Gender inequality may lead to discrimination and an increase in the vulnerability of adolescent girls to sexual coercion. Meanwhile, gender-sensitive reproductive health education is known to be able to decrease such vulnerability. Researcher wants to find the effects of gender-sensitive reproductive health education towards the adolescent girls’ attitude improvements. Methods: This study was quasi experiment research using pretest-posttest with control group design and conducted in May to June 2015. The samples were 93 adolescent girls which were selected from the tenth grade students of SMK Ma’arif 1 dan Muhammadiyah 1 Temon by purposive sampling. The data were collected by using reproductive health attitudes questionnaires based on researcher’s instrument experiments of 0.812 as the reliability. The reproductive health education based on gender ideology was given to the intervention group. Meanwhile, for the control group, it was given through a common reproductive health education carried out by puskesmas officers. The data were analyzed by univarite and bivariate analysis with the significance of p<0.05 and CI 95%. Results: There is a significant difference in the pretest and posttest scores of reproductive health attitudes in the intervention group (p=0.004), but not in the control group (p=0.150). There is a significant difference in the mean score improvement of reproductive health attitudes between the intervention and control groups (p=0.012). Conclusions: Reproductive health education which is based on gender ideology affects the improvement of adolescent girls' reproductive health attitudes. Keywords: Reproductive health education, Gender,
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Adolescents are known to obtain information regarding sexual and reproductive health from a variety of sources and not just during formal lessons in schools. This cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out to determine the source of information on sexual and reproductive health among Form four secondary schools girls in the Klang Valley as well as parents’ relationship profile. A total of 520 secondary school girls were recruited for the study. In this study, the source of information on puberty and sexual topics were categorized as follows: first level of importance – mothers, second level of importance – siblings, third level of importance – fathers, fourth level of importance – friends, fifth level of importance – teachers and sixth level of importance – books/internet. A majority of respondents agreed that their mothers were the first level of importance they sought for information on puberty (74.8%) and sexual topics (53.8%). Thirty nine point three percent (39.3%) of respondents reported it was very easy to have a dialogue with their mothers while only 10.0% of the respondents said it was very easy to have a dialogue with their fathers. While this was the case, only 6.3% of the respondents reported discussing sex-related matter with their mothers.
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Objective To investigate the status and requirement of knowledge of reproduction and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)/sexually transmited disease (STD) in pregnant adolescents with abortion in order to conduct proper interventions. Methods Two hundred and ninety-one unmarried pregnant adolescents below 22 years old with abortion completed questionnaires which involved the information on individual social-demographics characteristics, knowledge of reproduction, AIDS/STD and sex-related beliefs, attitudes and partners. Results Among these 291 adolescents, 37.7% experienced first sexual intercourse before 19 years old, 69.1% performed well in the knowledge of reproduction, and 62.6% and 43.5% did well in the knowledge of AIDS and the knowledge of the other STD, respectively. The rate of implementation of contraception was far less than that of awarenesss of contraception(P<0.05). These pregnant adolescents were not enthusiastic for seeking reproductive knowledge, and 45.0% would like to acquire the knowledge from professionals. Conclusion The knowledge of reproduction and AIDS/STD in the pregnant adolescents is not adequate, and they fail to carry out the proper behaviors of contraception. More education should be conducted on AIDS/STD prevention and contraception among pregnant adolescents.