Reproductive Health Information and Practice among Female Undergraduates of Private Universities in Osun State, Nigeria

Abstract

The research investigated the extent of awareness of reproductive health information and practice of female undergraduate in private universities in Osun State. The study employed the descriptive survey research design. The population for the study consisted of all the female undergraduates of private universities in Osun state. A total of 500 female undergraduates of private universities in Osun state formed the sample for this study. Proportionate sampling technique was used to assigned sample size to each of the three randomly selected universities to ensure fair representation. Simple random sampling technique was employed to select sampled size assigned to each of the selected universities. The instrument used to collect data was questionnaire titled “awareness of reproductive health information and reproductive health practice (APRHIQ). Data collected were analysed using frequency count, mean and standard deviation. The findings showed that young people are sexually active as majority have started engaging in sexual activities while still in secondary schools. The findings also indicated that awareness of reproductive health information is of a very low extent (45.6%) and reproductive health practice of female undergraduate is of a high extent (54.4%). The study concluded that Reproductive Health Information awareness is very low while reproductive health practice of female undergraduate of private universities in Osun state tends to be favourable. The study recommended that in order to avert the imminent threat of explosion of sexually transmitted diseases, there is urgent need to start teaching family life and sex education in schools right from elementary school.

Keywords: Information Awareness; Reproductive Health Information; Undergraduate, Reproductive Health Practice

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-16-09

Publication date:June 30^th 2021