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INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS
ATTITUDE AND AWARENESS OF BANNU COMMUNITY
TOWARDS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION
Rukhsana Aziz, Rahmatullah Shah. Zafar Khan
Institute of Education and Research, Gomal University
Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
Abstract
The paper investigates the attitude and awareness of the members of Bannu community
towards reproductive health education. The objectives of the study were to find out the
extent of attitude, and level of awareness of members of Bannu community towards
reproductive health education. For fulfillment of these objectives, two research questions
were formulated. For data collection, questionnaire and structured interview were used.
The sample consisted of 300 respondents, was randomly selected from different
categories of Bannu community. After collection of the data from the sources concerned,
it was analyzed through statistical program SPSS. Mean was used as statistical technique
for data analysis. The main findings of the study were as follows: the religious scholars of
rural, labour men of both rural and urban, illiterate of rural and urban have negative
attitude towards reproductive health education, where as religious scholars of urban,
doctors‘ rural, literate rural and affected rural respondents have moderate attitude
regarding reproductive health education in Bannu. While doctors of urban, literate of
urban and affected of urban respondents have positive attitude towards reproductive
health education.
Keywords: Community, reproduction, health, attitude
1. Introduction
The World Health Organization (1998) defined reproductive health as ―A state of
complete physical, mental and social well being and merely the absence of disease or
infirmity.‖ Reproductive health deals with the reproductive processes, functions and
system at all stages of life. Reproductive health education is considered a key strategy for
promoting safe sexual behavior among teenagers (Lindberg et al, 2000). ―People‘s ability
to reproduce (have children) and regulate their fertility. A state in which women are able
to go through pregnancy and child birth safely; outcome of pregnancy is successful in
terms of maternal and infant survival and well being; and couples are able to have sexual
relations free of the fear of contracting diseases (Fathallah, 1998)‖. .Majority of people is
unaware about reproductive health. Reproductive health concept become central as a
result of advocacy activities in the international arena, by the feminist movement and
women‘s health advocates (McIntosh & Finkle,1995).
In Islamic world the successful examples of national family planning programs are those
of Iran, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Egypt, where Muslim scholars have not only endorsed
but also provided support in accelerating contraceptive prevalence in these countries (Ali,
1998). Kridli & Libbus, 2001) found that men believe Islam forbidden family planning
and that God should decide family size. Hoodfar&Assadpour (2000) also highlighted the
importance of involving religious scholar in population control programs.
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