Effectiveness of Teaching Methods in Enhancing the Knowledge Regarding Reproductive Health of Early Married Women of Slum

Abstract

Background: The incidences of child marriage are more associated with the socio economical factors. Though it is more prevalent in rural area but the migrants are coming from the villages to the cities and tend to live in the slums which are cheaper, lack basic amenities, unhygienic and prone to numerous ill health. Child brides face serious reproductive health outcomes due to low knowledge of reproductive matter. Hence, by providing the information regarding menstruation, family planning and RTI/ STI and reproductive right the risks of reproductive health may be reduced. Objective: To know the effectiveness of the teaching methods to improve the knowledge of reproductive health. Material And Method: Longitudinal, non-experimental pre and post test study was conducted among 115 young women of slum who were married before 18 years. Purposive random sampling was applied to select the study subjects. Interview schedule was used to collect the data for the study. The information of reproductive health was provided by didactic lecture, participatory and individual methods. Paired 't' test was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the teaching methods. The overall baseline knowledge regarding reproductive health Result: of the participants was encreased by the intervention. It was observed that there is a signicant value change (p=<0.001) in knowledge of reproductive health. It can be Conclusion: concluded that the if the scientic information will be provided to the women it will enhance the knowledge as well as the healthy practices of reproductive health of women.