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| Published: December 28, 2021
Attitude and Knowledge Towards Sexual or Reproductive Health among Young Adults
Masters in Clinical Psychology, SGT University, Gurgaon, Haryana, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.164.20210904
DOI: 10.25215/0904.164
ABSTRACT
This study was planned to study and compare the attitude and knowledge towards sexual and reproductive health between males and female. It was a cross sectional study where a group of young adults, males and females, were selected, ranging from age 18 to 25 year, for participation and correlation was studied between the two measures i.e., attitude and knowledge towards sexual and reproductive health. Brief Sexual Attitude Scale, and Knowledge questionnaire was provided to participants and data was collected. According to the results, there was no significant relationship between attitude towards sexual and reproductive health, and knowledge towards sexual and reproductive health, also, it was found that females show significantly positive attitude in the domain of permissiveness, birth control, and communion and not in instrumentality as compared to males. It was also found that there is no significant difference between males and females in the domain of knowledge towards sexual and reproductive health.
Keywords
Attitude, Knowledge, Sexual or Reproductive Health, Young Adults
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2021, Kawatra T.
Received: July 30, 2021; Revision Received: December 15, 2021; Accepted: December 28, 2021
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.164.20210904
10.25215/0904.164
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Published in Volume 09, Issue 4, October- December, 2021