Contraception: knowledge, attitude and practice among university / Students in Kenya,

Abstract

This study has its main objective the examination of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of contraception among University students. It is a Case Study of the University of Nairobi. It uses a sample of 500 students randomly drawn from the undergraduate student population. The campuses studied are Main, Kabete, and Parklands. The sampling technique used is multi-stage sampling together with simple random sampling. The study examines various demographic, social, cultural and economic variables. The demographic variables include age, sex, number of children born to a student's own mother, student~s birth order, and type of parental union. The social variables include education of parents, AIDS' (disease), type of school attended, and exposure to mass media. The cultural variables include religion, desired family size and family composition desires whereas economic variables include parents occupation and usual place of residence. The methods of analysis used in this study include Contingency table analysis, Proportions and Multiple Classification Analysis (MeA) . The study finds out that there exists differentials in contraceptive knowledge level between male and female students. However, the study finds no significant differentials in attitude towards contraception. Differentials are also found in use rate between male and female students with current use rate being higher among males than among females.