Assessment of Secondary School Female Students’ Knowledge about Reproductive Health in Basra City

Abstract

The study started from November 2018 to April 2019. Validity of the questionnaire is determined through a panel of (12) experts and the reliability through the pilot study. Descriptive and inferential statistical analysis were employed for data analysis. The results show that the highest percentage of girls (82.5%) was in age (14–18) year's age, (60.2%) from student have between 1–4 brothers, (92%)of students was lives in urban area, (93.0%) of them was lives with their parents, (34.8%) of the student fathers was government employing, and (54.4%) of the student mothers have income, the majority of students’ family have low income (34.9%), (34.9%) of student at good level of attainment, external books were the first source of information (62.5%) of respondents. This study shows that student knowledge toward all domain of reproductive health were moderate level which as the total means (0.81), while student's knowledge about Sexually transmitted diseases was low level of knowledge which of the total means was (0.68).this study present that there were significant association between the student knowledge and their frequency among brother, and external reading from internet, and there were no significant between the student knowledge and their age, and living of student at P≤0.05 level