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Effects of Health Education on Knowledge and Use of Emergency Contraception Among Students of Public Secondary Schools in Ilorin, Nigeria
Emergency contraception (EC) is the only form of contraception that can be used after sexual intercourse. The objective of this study was to assess the effect of health education intervention on the knowledge and use of emergency contraception among secondary school students.
This was a quasi-experimental study carried out in 3 stages: pre-intervention, intervention and post-intervention. The intervention stage focused on health education on emergency contraception. Multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 527 respondents while analysis of the data was carried out using SPSS Version 21.0 Chi-square test of significance and student’s t-test was used to compare nominal variables and two means respectively. Level of significance was set at p-value of less than 0.05
Mean knowledge score of EC at pre-intervention was 26.7 + 14.4 and 27.4 + 14.1 in both study and control groups. Students’ past usage of EC too was low among both groups (12.8% and 14.6% in study and control group). Health Education Intervention (HEI) led to statistically significant increase in mean knowledge score from 26.7 + 14.4 to 46.7 + 6.2 and increase in usage of EC from 12.8% to 19.7% among the study group. Such increases were not noted among control group.
It can be concluded from this study that HEI about knowledge and use of EC is important in adolescent sexual education. It is therefore recommended that there is need for schools and governments at all levels to incorporate sexuality education with specific emphasis on EC among in-school adolescents
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Public health or related researchLearning Objectives:
assess the effect of health education intervention on the knowledge and use of emergency contraception among secondary school students
Keyword(s): Contraception, Reproductive Health
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Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: DR BABATUNDE, Oluwole Adeyemi, (MBBS, MPH, PGCert DPMIS, FWACP) is a Consultant Public Health Physician with the Federal Medical Center, Ido-Ekiti, Nigeria. He is a fellow of the West African College of Physicians who has worked with various NGOs; co-authored 26 publications at various stages of publication in Public Health Administration & Mgt, Reproductive Health, Monitoring & Evaluation, Bioethics, HIV/AIDS, Malaria, non-infectious and other infectious diseases
Any relevant financial relationships? No
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