A study was performed on knowledge and attitude of women students of University on population and family planning. The study group consisted of 229 students of Jeonbug National University who took a course of Population Education, and the control group was the students of Woo Suk College who did not take the course.
The major findings and results are summarized as follows:
Ⅰ. The knowledge and responses measured on population and family planning, between the study group and control group were not different significantly.
Ⅱ. The family planning was pointed as the best means of solution over population problems.
Ⅲ. On the ideal age of marriage, the mean was 24.96 ± 1.19 years in study group, and 24.65±1.36 years in control group.
Ⅳ. The mean age desired for marriage was 26.42 ± 1.61 years in study group, and 26,30±1.69 in control group, The diference between two groups was not significant.
Ⅴ. The ideal age of the first child birth was 26.70 ± 3.89 years in study group and 26.34±3.66 years in control group.
Ⅵ. The mean number of children desired was 1.54 ± 0.94 years in study group and 1.78 ± 0.92 years in control group. The difference between two groups was slightly significant.
Ⅶ. The attitude of control group on sterility was more conservative than study group. The control group showed more interest in adoptation of children than the study group.
Ⅷ. To compare with the general population on preference of boy, both of the study group and control group showed less interest in the preference of boy. However, 3.5 per cent of the study group studdkents had of study group. The difference between two groups were significant statistically.
Opinions to keep trying till a boy is born. The more students of control group prefer boy to girls than those of study group. The difference be tween two groups were significant statistically.
Ⅸ. More students of control group consider children means of keeping family generation than those of the study group.
Ⅹ. Out of the total, 80 per cent of the study group had knowledge or pregnancy, and physiology of birth. mean while 66 per cent of the control group had knowledge on those areas.
A. The mean number of family planning methods pointed out by study group studdkents was 4.5± 2.1, and material of family planning(22.7%), and TV and radio(19.7%). Menawhile, the sources given by the Control group.
B. The sources of information of family planning answered by the study group were school (40.2%), education material of family planning (22.7%), and TV and radio (19.7%) Meanwhile, the sources given by the control group were educational material (28.2%), TV and radio (25.9%) and school (24.5%).
C. On the responses of the study group students on time allocation on population education, 66.8% of them had the opinions that the time allocated was adequate, 26.6% having opinions that the time was not adequate, and 6.6% having opinions that the time was more than enough.
D. The evaluations made by the study group students on the level of population education were as follows 65.9% of the students consider the level to be adequate, 30.2% considering the level to be low, and 3.9% considering the level to be difficult.
E. Out of the total, 55.0% of the study group students were satisfied with the contents of porplation education program and 22.7% were very satisfid the contents and 19.2% were not satisfied with the contents of the program.
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