Original Research Article
Year: 2019 | Month: June | Volume: 6 | Issue: 6 | Pages: 280-286
A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Family Planning Method among Eligible Couple in Selected Area of Greater Noida
Mrs. Sushma Yadav
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatric Nursing, Prakash College of Nursing, Omega -IV, Greater Noida, UP- 201310.
ABSTRACT
Family planning means, way of thinking and living that is adopted voluntary upon the basis of knowledge, attitude and responsible decisions by individual and couple in order to promote the health and welfare of the family group and thus contribute effectively to the social development of the country. Family planning is considered as the basic human right. The quality of life can be improved only through family planning. By spacing child birth, health status of the family planning enhanced. Family planning is important for women empowerment and equality also low and order, political system and economic development can be ensured only for family planning. Through family planning only individual health and health status of the nation can be enhanced. That means family planning is extremely important for development and well-being of our Nation. Children get good nourishment in small family and their physical and mental growth is also better. The need of family planning is to- Awareness of one or more methods of contraception, Increase in contraceptives use over the years, Knowledge of female sterilization. We select this problem as our research study because we want to assess the knowledge regarding method of family planning among eligible couples. The study aims to assess the knowledge regarding family planning method among the eligible couples in selected area of Greater Noida. This study is a type of descriptive research. A Descriptive study with cross sectional survey approach was under taken to assess the knowledge level of eligible couples regarding family planning method. The research approach used in this study was survey approach. A purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples. The size of the sample was 100 eligible individuals. Data were collected by using structured interview schedule. Analysis was done by descriptive and inferential statistics. Major finding of the study are such as the overall mean knowledge score of the study of respondent was5.95(SD=5.28). It indicated that eligible couples had less knowledge regarding family planning method. Chi square test was performed to determine the association between selected socio-demographic variables and knowledge score of the sample. There is no significance relationship between socio-demographic variables and knowledge of eligible couple about family planning method as is more than table value at p=0.05.Hence, null hypothesis is accepted and research hypothesis is rejected. As a conclusion, it was found that the eligible couples had low knowledge regarding family planning method.
Key words: Family planning methods, eligible couples’s knowledge level of male and female eligible couples.
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