“A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge and Attitude Regarding Sexual and Reproductive Health Among Adolescent Girls of Selected High School of Bagalkot’’

Abstract

Background: Adolescence is considered as a period of transition from childhood to adulthood. This period of life between ages of 10 to 19 years. This period is very crucial, since these are the formative years of life of an individual when major physical, psychological and behavioural changes take place. This is an impressionable period of life; this is also a period of preparation for undertaking greater responsibilities including healthy responsible parenthood in future. Adolescence form prospective human resource for the society. The study was aimed to assess the knowledge and attitude regarding sexual and reproductive health among adolescent girls in selected High school at Bagalkot.

Methods: The conceptual frame work used was based on Modified Irwin Rosen stock (1966) health promotion Model. The research design used for the study was descriptive survey design. Purposive sampling was used to select the high school and Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 60 sample for the study. The tool used for the study was structured knowledge questionnaire to assess the knowledge and five-point Likert scale to assess the attitude regarding sexual and reproductive health. The data gathered were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics.

Results: The mean score of knowledge are 7.733(S.D.2.20067) and attitude are 34.933 (S.D 6.3107). Area wise analysis of knowledge score was done. The correlation co-efficient of knowledge and attitude is (0.60) which is positively correlated.

Conclusion: The findings of the study showed that there is no significant association between knowledge scores with socio demographical variables age, type of family, religion, family income, residence, medium of instruction, family member, educational status of the mother and father, Irregular menstrual history, physical changes, sex education. There is no-association found between attitude scores with socio demographic variables.