IMPACT OF HEALTH EDUCATION INTERVENTION ON KNOWLEDGE OF CONSEQUENCES OF ABORTION AMONG UNDERGRADUATES OF ADEKUNLE AJASIN UNIVERSITY, AKUNGBA-AKOKO, ONDO STATE
Abstract
Abortion has continued to be a significant global public health challenge, with profound implications for the health, socio-economic status, and well-being of females. Despite efforts to reduce abortion rates and improve female reproductive health, many teenagers still engage in pre-marital sexual relationship which may lead them to becoming pregnant and ultimately to seek the route of abortion and pre-dispose them to the consequences. Hence, this study investigated the impact of health education intervention on knowledge of consequences of abortion among undergraduates of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State.
Three (3) research questions were raised and answered in this study, five (5) hypotheses were tested.The study employed pre-test post-test quasi experimental control group research design while population comprised all the undergraduates of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State from which 60 respondents were selected through multi-stage sampling procedure. Validated self-constructed questionnaire approved by the researcher’s supervisor with reliability co-efficient of 0.68 was used for data collection. With the help of two trained research assistants, the researcher went to the selected respondents to administer the instrument. Simple percentage and mean were used to answer the research questions while, inferential statistics of t-test and ANOVA were used to test all the hypotheses at alpha level 0.05.
Based on the data analysis, the following findings were revealed; level of knowledge of consequences of abortion among undergraduates of Adekunle Ajasin, Akungba-Akoko is below average (x̄=12.300); health education intervention has significant impact on knowledge of consequences of abortion among undergraduates of Adekunle Ajasin, Akungba-Akoko (x̄ diff=10.1889); age (F = .507, p>0.05), religion (F = .237, p>0.05), tribe (F = .757, p>0.05) and academic level (F = .869, p>0.05) have no significant influence on knowledge of consequences of abortion among undergraduates of Adekunle Ajasin, Akungba-Akoko.
Based on the findings of this study, the study concluded that undergraduates of Adekunle Ajasin, Akungba-Akoko have below average of knowledge of consequences of abortion. Furthermore, after intervention, undergraduates of Adekunle Ajasin, Akungba-Akoko displayed higher knowledge of abortion consequences. The study also concluded that age, religion, tribe, and level have no significant influence on knowledge of consequences of abortion among undergraduates of Adekunle Ajasin, Akungba-Akoko. Consequent upon the findings, the following recommendations were made among others; The integration of comprehensive sex education and reproductive health programs into the general studies should be advocated in order to ensure that young adults are equipped with empirical knowledge, information, and skills to make informed decisions about their reproductive health.
Keywords: Abortion, pregnancy, knowledge, consequences, health education, intervention
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