SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEEDS: A STUDY AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS STAYING AT ADI-DRAVIDAR WELFARE HOSTEL IN TAMILNADU

R. Jeya Sundari; A.K. Ravisankar

Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2017

SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH NEEDS: A STUDY AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS STAYING AT ADI-DRAVIDAR WELFARE HOSTEL IN TAMILNADU

R. Jeya Sundari, A. K. Ravisankar

Abstract :

This paper assesses the college student staying at Adi Dravidar welfare Hostel. Existing knowledge and attitudes to words the sexual and Reproductive Health issues and family life education. Proportionate method of sampling technique was applied to choose 634 College students staying at Adi Dravidar Welfare Hostel in 15 selected district of TamilNadu during the academic year 2014-2015. The result shows that the respondents 98.1% had average knowledge about sexuality. Only 1.6% and 0.35% of them had good and poor level of sexuality respectively. The ANOVA results show statistical signification of the relationship between demographic variables and the respondent�s knowledge about reproductive health. The higher percentage 85.2% of them average level of knowledge and 14.8% of them had knowledge in poor level. None of them were in good reproductive health. The reproductive health among students knowledge was in moderate level it might be due to setting of the descriptive study.