ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE (KAP) OF FAMILY PLANNING AMONG RURAL WOMEN IN KOGI STATE, NIGERIA
ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE (KAP) OF FAMILY PLANNING AMONG RURAL WOMEN IN KOGI STATE, NIGERIA
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2018-01
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JIMOH, Monday
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The purpose of this study was to assess knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of family
planning among rural women in Kogi state, Nigeria. Ex-post facto research design was used
for this study and the sample size consisted of 384 respondents. To achieve this purpose, a
researcher developed questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection. The
population of the study comprised of 72,844 women of reproductive age. The instrument
was vetted by five jurors from the Departments of Physical and Health Education and
Nursing Sciences. Three hundred and eighty four (384) copies of questionnaire were
distributed to the respondents. Three hundred and seventy nine (379; 98.7%) were
adequately filled and retrieved from respondents. Five (5; 1.3%) copies of questionnaire
were not filled correctly and therefore, those were not used. A multi-stage sampling
procedure was employed which comprised of; stratified, simple random, purposive,
proportionate sampling procedure. The data collected was analyzed using descriptive
statistics of frequencies and percentages, mean and standard deviation. To test the
formulated hypotheses, one sample t-test was used. All the formulated null hypotheses were
tested at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The results of the study revealed that rural women
in Kogi state, Nigeria have significant knowledge of family planning with a t-value of 3.201
(p-value of 0.021). The findings further showed that rural women in Kogi state do not have
significant attitude towards family planning with t-value of 1.291 and p-value of 0.18,
finally the results of the study revealed that rural women in Kogi State do not significantly
practice family planning with a (p-value of 1.05). On the basis of the research findings, the
following conclusions are drawn; that rural women in Kogi State were knowledgeable about
family planning, that rural women in Kogi state do not have positive attitude and practice of
family planning. The following recommendations were made based on the conclusions.
Federal, state and local government health units should encourage women in sustaining their
knowledge of family planning through community mobilization and enlighten programmes.
The health directorate in collaboration with the family planning unit should roll out more
programmes such as organizing workshops, seminars, to educate married couples on the
benefits of family planning practices. This will bridge the gap between knowledge and
practice of family planning.
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A THESIS SUBMITED TO THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES
IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD
OF THE MASTER DEGREE IN HEALTH EDUCATION.
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL AND HEALTH EDUCATION,
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY,
ZARIA
Keywords
ASSESSMENT,, KNOWLEDGE,, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE,, FAMILY PLANNING,, RURAL WOMEN,, KOGI STATE,, NIGERIA