INVESTIGATTING THE FACTORS INFLUENCING ABORTION PRACTICES AMONG FEMALE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF ADEKUNLE AJASIN UNIVERSITY,AKUNGBA-AKOKO,ONDO STATE.

The study investigated the factors influencing abortion practices among female undergraduate students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State. Chapter one introduces the concept of abortion, the problems that facilitated the study, purpose and significance of the study, generated research questions and hypotheses which are the independent variables of socio-economic status, Religious beliefs, Peer pressure, fear of rustication, and Psychological factors. The chapter two is an extensive review of related literature was carried out under the following sub-headings; Concepts of Abortion,independent variables of socio-economic status, Religious beliefs, Peer pressure, fear of rustication, and Psychological factors among others related concepts that facilitated the identification ofrelevance procedures and strategies as well as the construction of instrument used in this study. The chapter three was the methodology adopted for this study. Descriptive survey research design was used for the study while population comprised all the female undergraduate students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko from which 210respondents were selected randomly assample from the selected five faculties in the university. Self-constructed questionnaire approved by the researcher's supervisor was used for data collection. With the help of a trained research assistant, the researcher went to each selected faculty to administer the instrument. Retrieved questionnaire were screened and coded into frequency tables, while simple percentage and Chi square (X2) statistics were used for data analysis. All the alternative hypotheses were accepted at alpha level 0.05 and degree of freedom of 12 while all the null hypotheses were not accepted for this study. Based on the data analysis, the following conclusions were made; This finding indicated that socio-economic status; religious beliefs; peer pressure; fear of rustication and psychological factors were significant factors influencing abortion practices among female undergraduate students of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State. Consequent upon the findings, the following recommendations were made; Improved socio-economic status will prevent abortion practices therefore, the government and other stake holders should focus more on alevating poor households from poverty by implementing masses friendlly policies targeting at uplifting individual economic status; Parents must teach their wards sex education from their childhood stage of development while seminar/workshop should be organized from time to time for students by the university management anchored by the department of Human Kinetics and Health Education.