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标题：Assessment of family planning knowledge in students of adolescent age group in various schools of Indore city Madhya Pradesh
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作者：VP Goswami ; Shailesh Rai.
期刊名称：The Journal of Community Health Management
印刷版ISSN：2394-272X
电子版ISSN：2394-2738
出版年度：2018
期号：1
页码：41-48
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出版社：Innovative Publication
摘要：Register Introduction: Adolescent population is upcoming youth and they will take the responsibility of family in future. Especially the female of this group faces the problems related with early pregnancy due to lack of knowledge or poor knowledge regarding family planning methods. Objectives: To assess the awareness regarding family planning in adolescent age group. Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on school students of adolescent age group with the help of Pre-designed, Pre-tested, Semi-structured questionnaire during the period between 01 April 2015 – 30 March 2016. Permission taken from school principal. Simple random sampling for selection of school and Adolescent boys and girls was adopted. A total of 1492 (970 boys and 522 girls) Adolescent boys and girls were included in the study. The collected data were analyzed with the help of various tools and techniques to draw meaningful inferences and conclusion. Results: About reasons for not marring before right age of marriage, responses increases with the age i.e. 63.9%, 77.2% and 88.1% in early, mid and late adolescent’s girls respectively c2 = 8.26, p-value 0.001. Few numbers of girls were aware about the MTP and legal aspects of abortion as compare to boys i.e. 32.3% and 24.7% respectively. c2 =10.15, p