A study on awareness and attitude towards family welfare program

The lack of education and family planning services led to increased rates of unwanted pregnancy at tremendous social, economic and emotional costs. Prevention involves making wise sexual choices and access to contraceptive services and counseling to discourage premature sexual activity until education is completed. The study is aimed to assess awareness and attitude towards family welfare program among students. A sample of 100 respondents was randomly selected from arts faculty in Annamalai University. Schedule through personal interview was used for data collection and analysis was done through frequency and percent. The result revealed all the respondents had knowledge about tubectomy method and above 90 percent of the respondents had known oral pills, IUD, condom, and vasectomy. It has been observed that majority of respondents got awareness through books/literature (95%) and mass media (92%). Majority of the respondents (74%) had showed favorable attitude towards compulsory sterilization and majority of (94%) the respondents had suggested to undergo abortion when the conception occurs due to rape (94%). It has been suggested to include population education in the school curriculum in order to increase their awareness on problems of higher growth of population and to reduce the fertility level by wider adoption family welfare methods in future.