REPRODUCTIVE AND SEXUAL HEALTH BEHAVIOUR OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN UDENU LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ENUGUS STATE

Abstract

The paper found out the reproductive and sexual health behaviour of secondary school students 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 frequency counts and percentages. The findings of the study revealed that slightly less than one fifth of the students always took oral contraceptives, loved having sex using withdrawal method, loved having sex with protection and loved halving sex with condom. Majority of the students took bath with hot water to prevent STIs and used antibiotics to prevent STIs while less than one-half of the secondary school students used condom during sex to prevent s. Slightly more than one third of the students used contraceptive pills to prevent STIs. The researcher recommended encouragement of set values, good family communication on sex matters, supervision of films brought into the country and programmes that are aired from the media houses even internet and sex education at early ages.