A Study to assess the knowledge regarding infertility among women’s in selected OBG clinics in order to provide health education in a selected OBG clinics at Chitradurga, Karnataka

Mrs. Sudharani G Hiremath

Vice - Principal, Shree H. N. Shukla Nursing School, Rajkot, Gujarat

*Corresponding Author E-mail: sudharani110@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT:

The study was conducted to assess the regarding infertility among women’s. The study was conducted in selected OBG clinics at Chitradurga, Karnataka. Total samples were 30. The research design of the study was pre – experimental design one-group pre-test and post-test method was used. The study was conducted at selected OBG clinics at Chitradurga. Non-probability convenient sampling technique was used. A structured knowledge questionnaire was used to collect the data from the infertile women before and after the health education programme on knowledge regarding positive practices to enhance fertility. The reliability of the tool was confirmed by test-retest method. This study revealed that, in the pre-test out of 30 subjects majority 23 (76.67%) of them had inadequate knowledge with a overall mean score of 8.37 (SD=4.37). But in the post-test majority of infertile women 20 (66.67%) reported adequate knowledge regarding infertility after the health education programme with an overall mean score of 16.2 (SD=2.15). Chi- square test was calculated to find out the association between post–test levels of knowledge regarding infertility among infertility women’s with selected demographic variables such as age, occupation, socio economic status, educational status, types of marriage, duration of marriage, types of family, numbers of children, spouse is staying together and history of any disease. It shows that there is no any significant association between post test levels of knowledge and demographic variables.

KEY WORDS: Knowledge, Infertility, Health Education.

INTRODUCTION:

“The Miracle of Life

Before you were conceived, I wanted you

Before you were born, I loved you

And before you were here an hour

I would have sacrificed everything for you”

Fertility is an important aspect of life cycle. Every individual will reproduce their offspring’s in their life cycle. If there is a problem during this reproductive cycle that is during conception, pregnancy, labour and after labour the couples may not have child and it is known as infertility.

Infertility primarily refers to the biological inability of a person to contribute to conception. Infertility may also refer to the state of a woman who is unable to carry a pregnancy to full term. Couples with primary infertility have never been able to conceive, while on the other hand, secondary infertility is difficulty conceiving after already having conceived. (And either carried the pregnancy to term or had a miscarriage).¹

There are several factors which may contribute infertility. Among that 40% are male factors, 40% are female factors, 10% population due to combined causes and 25% are unexplained.²

The treatment methods for infertility may be grouped as medical or complementary and alternative treatments. Some methods may be used in concert with other methods. Other medical techniques such as e.g. tuboplasty, assisted hatching, and Preimplantation and genetic diagnosis are available, but there is a significant increased number of infertility.³

NEED FOR THE STUDY:

Reproduction plays a significant role in human life. Both men and women are equally responsible for reproduction but there is a significant increase day today. 80% of couples achieve conception of them so desire within one year to having regular intercourse with adequate frequency another 10% will conceive at the end of one year, but remaining 10% become infertile. ⁴

Infertility affects many young couples (estimates are as high as approximately 1 in 6), and the prevalence is increasing. Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Survey of Family Growth done back in 1995 showed 6.1 million infertile women ages 15 to 44, 9.1 million using infertility services, and 2.1 million infertile married couples in the United States. According to a press release from the National Fertility Association, the data from 2002 indicates an increase in the number of infertile people in the United States to 7.3 million.In India 2.62/100000 population are infertile and in Karnataka 2.1/100000 population are infertile (National Family health survey (NFHS) oct.2007).^5,6

Awareness about infertility is essential among the women. There is a need for awareness generation programs to educate women, propagation of correct messages and also to correct the infertility. ⁷

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY:

· To identify the level of knowledge regarding infertility among infertile women attending OBG clinics.

· To evaluate impact of health education regarding health teaching among infertile women’s.

· To determine the degree of association between socio-demographic variables and different factors associated with infertility.

MATERIALS AND METHODS:

FINDINGS:

Findings regarding assessment of pre-test and post-test level of knowledge of infertile women on infertility showed that, in the pre-test out of 30 subjects majority 23 (76.67%) of them had inadequate knowledge with a overall mean score of 8.37 (SD=4.37). But in the post-test majority of infertile women 20 (66.67%) reported adequate knowledge regarding infertility after the health education programme with an overall mean score of 16.2 (SD=2.15).

Regarding the effectiveness of health education programme the findings of the study showed that, the overall knowledge score obtained by theinfertile women in the pre-test was 8.37 and the post-test was 16.2 The overall improvement mean score was 7.83 with‘t’ value 06.09 which was significant at P<0.05 level.

The study findings also revealed that there was a no significant association between the post-test knowledge of theinfertile women and the selected demographic variables such as occupation, socio economic status, educational status, types of marriage, duration of marriage, types of family, numbers of children, spouse is staying together and history of any disease at P<0.05.

CONCLUSION:

Theinfertile women had responded well after health education programme in post-test. The study concludes that, there was a significant difference between post-test knowledge score and pre-test knowledge score oftheinfertile women. Thus the health education programme was found to be very effective in improving the knowledge of the infertile women on infertility.

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Received on 27.01.2017 Modified on 15.02.2017

Int. J. Adv. Nur. Management. 2017; 5(2):155-158.

DOI: 10.5958/2454-2652.2017.00033.6