Knowledge of Reproductive Health among School Going Adolescents Girls

Introduction: Issues affecting adolescent reproductive and sexual health are similar to those adults, but may include additional concerns about teenage pregnancy and lack of adequate access to information and health services. Worldwide, around 16 million adolescent girls give birth every year, mostly in low-and middle-income countries. Aim: The objective of this study was to see the knowledge of reproductive health among school going adolescents girls. Materials and Methods: The sample comprising of 50 respondents of school going adolescents girls and used lottery method by adopting simple random sampling technique from the class of  VIII, IX and XI(number 120). A pre structure questionnaire was used to collect the data from the respondents. The pre structured questionnaire was designed especially with the objective of the study. The questionnaire consists of 28 questions and it has consists of the following segments: Part – I: Socio-economic and Demographic variables. Part – II: Awareness level about puberty. Part – III: Awareness level about sexual transmitted diseases. Part – IV: Health problem during puberty. Results: The socio-demographic details revealed that a majority of respondents were in the age group of 16 years (32%), class 11 (40%), Hindu in religion (90%), from urban background (92%), from nuclear family (80%), and majority of the respondents fathers occupation were unskilled labours (80%). Age of the respondents and their knowledge on puberty, constitute 38 respondents said YES and 12 respondents said NO. Respondent’s knowledge on the occurrence of reproduction as per the class in which they are studying constitute 28 respondents said YES and 22 respondents said NO. Respondent’s knowledge about way of HIV spreading as per the place of living, constitute 33 respondents said YES and 17 respondents said NO. Conclusion: Based on the findings it may be concluded that the knowledge among the adolescent girls about reproductive health awareness, it was found that the knowledge of reproductive health awareness was limited among the adolescent girls.