Reproductive Health Right Practice among Preparatory School Female Students of Assela Town, Arsi Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia

Introduction. Knowledge and practice toward reproductive health right (RHR) is critical to protect young women, especially school girls, from unwanted reproductive outcomes as improving access to reproductive health services. However, the majority of young people including female secondary school st...

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Published in:TheScientificWorld 2020, Vol.2020 (2020), p.1-9
Main Authors: Adugna, Shimelis, Fekadu, Hailu, Tafa, Tigist, Tafa Segni, Mesfin, Assegid, Meselech
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abused women
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Adolescent
AIDS
Analysis
Contraception
Contraceptives
Cross-Sectional Studies
Data collection
Ethiopia - epidemiology
Family planning
Female
Females
Girls
Health care reform
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Odds Ratio
Oral contraceptives
Public Health Surveillance
Random sampling
Regression analysis
Reproductive health
Reproductive Health - education
Reproductive Health - statistics & numerical data
Reproductive rights
Schools
Sex Factors
Sexual Behavior
Sexual health
Sexual partners
Socioeconomic Factors
Statistical sampling
Students
Teenagers
Womens health
Young Adult
Young adults
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Summary:Introduction. Knowledge and practice toward reproductive health right (RHR) is critical to protect young women, especially school girls, from unwanted reproductive outcomes as improving access to reproductive health services. However, the majority of young people including female secondary school students in Ethiopia have very little knowledge on the youth’s reproductive health rights. The aim of this study was to assess knowledge and practice toward reproductive health right among preparatory female students in Assela Town, Arsi Zone, Ethiopia. Methods. A study was conducted among 403 preparatory school female students in Assela Town. Simple random sampling was employed to select the subjects, and a self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data. The collected data were entered using EPI Info version 3.5.4 and exported to SPSS version 21 for analysis. Descriptive and logistic regression analysis was carried out. Result. Sixty percent of girls discussed reproductive issues openly with their peers. About 94% of the respondents knew, at least, one contraceptive method; injectable (91.2%) was the most known type of contraceptives. Marital status, father occupation, discussion on sexual and reproductive issues, and having sexual partners were affecting the practice of reproductive health rights. Conclusions. Knowledge of the students was moderate on reproductive health right which was 70%. Practice of sexual and reproductive health rights was 22.6% among the study participants. It is recommended that promotion on sexual and reproductive health right through media is important.
ISSN:2356-6140
1537-744X
1537-744X
DOI:10.1155/2020/6070638