KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE, AND PRACTICES TOWARDS COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL EDUCATION AMONG STUDENTS IN MERIKIT SECONDARY SCHOOL, TORORO DISTRICT. A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.
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https://doi.org/10.71020/jwhr.v2i11.61Keywords:
Knowledge, Attitude, and practices, Comprehensive sexual Education, Students of Merikit Secondary SchoolAbstract
Background
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) includes age-appropriate, medically accurate information on a broad set of topics related to sexuality, including human development, relationships, decision-making, abstinence, and contraception. The study aims to assess the Knowledge, attitudes, and practices towards comprehensive sexual education among students of Merikit Secondary School.
Methodology
A descriptive cross-sectional study employed simple random sampling to select 50 respondents. The data collected was analyzed manually using a scientific calculator and presented in frequency and percentages using the Microsoft Excel computer program to generate figures and tables for easier interpretation.
Results
(44%) were aged between 15-17 years of age, (62%) were females. (92%) had ever heard about comprehensive sexual education, (67%) obtained their first knowledge about comprehensive sexual education from school, (62%) knew HIV/AIDS as the component of comprehensive sexual education, (74%) alleged that comprehensive sexual education is very important to students, (52%) granted that teachers should openly discuss CSE at school, (34%) were in favor of their parents to inform them about physical /menstruation changes, (68%) reported that they were not sexually active, (47%) of the respondents had ever used condoms, (56%) of the respondents noted that teachers at school always discuss sexual education at school, (40%) of the respondents reported that they last utilized HIV/AIDS counseling at school for 1-2 years,(38%) were not ready to test for HIV.
Conclusion
Participants possessed fairly satisfactory knowledge and attitude, but practices were quite debatable to a certain extent, as a result of the fact that the implementation of comprehensive sexual education would be equitably achieved if a significant number of participants had regular sessions with CSE.
Recommendation
Merikit Secondary School administration should set up committees of teachers with whom the students are more comfortable.
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