SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH ATTITUDE OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN UDENU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ENUGU STATE

Abstract

The paper found out the sexual and reproductive health attitude of secondary school student in Udenu Local Government Area, Enugu State. A self developed questionnaire was the instrument used for data collection. Descriptive survey research design was employed for the study. The population for the study consisted of 15, 364 students while multi-stage sampling procedure was used to draw a sample of 768 students used for the study. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation. The findings of the study revealed that secondary school students had positive attitudes towards sexual behaviour and safer sex. The study also revealed that there was no significant difference in the attitude of male and female, public and private secondary school students towards sexual behaviour and safer sex. The researcher recommended good family communication on sex matter encouragement of set values, supervision of films brought into the country, programmes that are aid in media houses and sex education at early ages.