Saudi Journal of Nursing and Health Care (SJNHC)
Volume-2 | Issue-01 | 47-51
Original Research Article
Knowledge, Attitude and Practices Regarding Infertility among Child Bearing Age Females of Rural Community, Lahore
Mehvish Sabah, Nazia Bukhari, Muhammad Azhr, Muhammad Afzal, Umm-e-Habiba
Published : Jan. 30, 2019
Abstract
Introduction: Introduction: Infertility is a worldwide issue that effects between 60 million and 168 million individuals
around the world. It influences 13% to 15% of couples around the world. It puts a gigantic mental weight on the barren
couple, particularly on the lady, and it might prompt despondency, self-destructive inclinations, and other pathological
mental conditions. The restorative meaning of barrenness is the inability to imagine following a year of unprotected sex.
Essential barrenness is the powerlessness to consider following 1 year of unprotected sex with no past origination
(Abolfotouh, Alabdrabalnabi, Albacker, Al-Jughaiman, & Hassan, 2013). Methods: A descriptive Cross-sectional study
design is used in this study because cross sectional study design provides a better understanding about any event or
situation. The duration of the study is 4 months Sep, 2017 Jan, 2018. Study population for this research work is the child
bearing age female of a rural community of Lahore. The total number of child bearing age female of Hussain Abad is 270
and number of infertile women is 168. Only infertile female are considered. Close ended questionnaire was designed,
checked and used to access knowledge, attitude and practice of the participant’s towards infertility. Results: Response
rate of this survey was not good and mean number of “Yes” answers to knowledge, attitude and practice questions were
46% and 42% respectively. Conclusions: Knowledge, attitudes and practice about infertility among adolescents was
partial. Results of this study indicate lack of understanding about basics of preventive measures and prevention of
infertility. The study had been determined the knowledge and attitude of people regarding infertility prevention. The level
of knowledge was good among people but there was no significant association between attitude and practices regarding
infertility prevention among the women. Moreover the people have poor practices toward infertility prevention.
Furthermore factors (poverty,