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    Knowledge and practice of contraceptives among adolescent female students in Osun East Senatorial District, Osun State Nigeria.
    (Department of Kinesiology, Health Education and Recreation , Faculty of Education, Obafemi Awolowo University., 2023) Ademokoya, Grace Ikeoluwa.
    The study assessed the knowledge and practice of contraceptives among adolescent female students in Osun East Senatorial District, Osun State, Nigeria. It examined the adolescent female students’ knowledge of contraceptive, assessed the level of contraceptive practice among the adolescent female students, and investigated the correlation between contraceptive knowledge and practice among adolescent female students in the study area. These were with a view to providing information on the knowledge and extent to which adolescent female students use contraceptives. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population comprised all adolescent female students in urban and rural areas in secondary schools in Osun East Senatorial District, Osun State. The Sample size for this study consisted of 320 adolescent female students in Senior Secondary School I to Senior Secondary School III who were selected using multi-stage sampling procedure. Two Local Government Areas (LGAs) were selected from the senatorial district using simple random sampling technique. From each LGA, eight schools were selected using stratified sampling technique with location as stratum (urban-8 and rural-8 making 16). From each urban school, 30 respondents making 240 were sampled while ten respondents were sampled from each of rural schools using quota sampling technique. A self-constructed and validated questionnaire titled Knowledge and Use of Contraceptives Questionnaire (KUC-Q) was used to elicit information from the respondents. In order to determine reliability of the instrument, test-retest was conducted among twenty (20) respondents who were not part of the study. They responded to the questionnaire twice, with a two-week gap between the tests and the reliability test yielded r = 0.78 using Pearson Moment Correlational analysis. Data collected were analysed using appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics.Results indicated that female students in the both rural and urban areas have knowledge of contraceptives (t = 2.4; df = 30; P > 0.05). Also, the practice of contraceptives was found to be low especially among the rural school students. In addition, there was a significant positive relationship between practice and knowledge of contraceptive (r = -0.753**, p<0.05) at 0.01 level of significance. The study concluded that female adolescent students in both urban and rural schools have high knowledge of contraceptive and contraception, but urban adolescent female students had moderately high level of practice as against their rural counterparts who demonstrated mderately low level of contraceptive practice.