Abstract: This paper was set to assess knowledge of reproductive health (RH) among students in Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria. RH addresses human sexuality and reproductive processes, functions and system at all stages of life that ensures a healthy and satisfying safe sex life. The study was guided by two objectives and two research questions. Method. The ex-post-factor design was used for the study. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to draw sample size of 554 respondents from six Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria. A researcher developed questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) IBM version 20. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze demographic characteristics, while one tailed sampled t-test was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results: The study revealed that: students of Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria have significant RH knowledge on safe motherhood P= 0.000 (p< 0.05) level of significance. Knowledge of sexually transmitted infections among students in Colleges of Education in North East Zone was also significant at P = 0.000 (p< 0.05). The study recommended that Information, Education and Communication IEC activities aimed at increasing and maintaining knowledge of reproductive health matters through health education and counseling programs should be intensified by teachers and health care providers to students and youth in the community.
Keywords: Health, Reproductive health, Reproductive health knowledge Safe motherhood.
Title: ASSESSMENT OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH KNOWLEDGE AMONG STUDENTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH EAST ZONE OF NIGERIA
Author: Ibrahim Mohammed Mbitsa
International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research and Innovations
ISSN 2348-1218 (print), ISSN 2348-1226 (online)
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