Attitude and Knowledge Towards Sexual or Reproductive Health among Young Adults

Abstract

This study was planned to study and compare the attitude and knowledge towards sexual and reproductive health between males and female. It was a cross sectional study where a group of young adults, males and females, were selected, ranging from age 18 to 25 year, for participation and correlation was studied between the two measures i.e., attitude and knowledge towards sexual and reproductive health. Brief Sexual Attitude Scale, and Knowledge questionnaire was provided to participants and data was collected. According to the results, there was no significant relationship between attitude towards sexual and reproductive health, and knowledge towards sexual and reproductive health, also, it was found that females show significantly positive attitude in the domain of permissiveness, birth control, and communion and not in instrumentality as compared to males. It was also found that there is no significant difference between males and females in the domain of knowledge towards sexual and reproductive health.