INFLUENCE OF SEX ON THE EFFECT OF HEALTH EDUCATION INTERVENTION ON KNOWLEDGE OF CONTRACEPTION AMONG ADOLESCENTS IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

The study was a pre-test post-test quasi experiment aimed at investigating the influence of sex on the effect of health education intervention on knowledge of contraception among adolescents in Rivers State. A self-structured and validated questionnaire with reliability of .82 was used to elicit data from 424 participants. Simple random sampling technique was used to select intact SS1, SS2 and SS3 classes from two University Demonstration Secondary Schools in Rivers State who formed the experimental and control group. Mean, standard deviation and ANCOVA were used to analyze the data collected. From the result of the analysis, it was found that sex did not influence the effect of health education intervention on the knowledge of contraception among the adolescents (F1, 421=2.62 >Fcal=.457, P >0.05). Based on this finding it was concluded that male and female adolescents were not different in their comprehension of facts concerning contraception. It was, therefore, recommended among others that course content on contraception remain the same for adolescents in all secondary schools irrespective of sex.