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الدراسات السابقةيوجد فقط 14 صفحة متاحة للعرض العام
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المستخلص
Summary of the Study
The subject of the study is determined in examining the relationship of the social variables influencing in the reproductive health for families inside the Libyan society in the light of transformations and changes occurred in the Libyan society as a result of modernization and development processes which brought about with the discovery of oil, evolvement of Technology where they contributed to the creation of other changes in various aspects of community life, especially with regard to the family and their roles.
The study objectives:
The study aimed at the following:
1) Recognize the reality of reproductive health in the Libyan society.
2) Identify the social variables affecting the reproductive health.
The study significance:
The significance of this study lies in that it is trying to enrich the scientific knowledge in the field of sociology through setting forth a relatively new and vital issue in the field of population studies as it shed light on issues of great importance to the individual, family and community as a whole. this study also helps the specialized organizations in developing programs that will raise awareness and counseling and education to raise the level of the awareness of individual, family and community towards the most important issues of reproductive health that involve the important topics attract the attention of the whole community, and open other areas of research for many reproductive health studies to the researchers in sociology.
The study questions:
The study seeks to answer the following questions:
1. What is the reality of reproductive health in the Libyan society?
2. What are the social changes affecting the reproductive health?
A) What is the impact of education level on the reproductive health?
B) What is the role of income or socio-economic level in the reproductive health?
C) What is the effect of inbreeding on the reproductive health?
D) What is the impact of genetic diseases on the reproductive health?
E) What is the impact of profession on the reproductive health?
F) What is the impact of media and means of communication on the reproductive health?
G) What is the role of family size in the reproductive health?
The methodological procedures:
This study is one of descriptive studies, where descriptive analytical approach is more suitable to deal with the phenomenon - the subject of the study - and the approach of social survey through sample, the approach of case study, applying the questionnaire and the guide of case study in data collection were used. The deliberate sample was chosen as its size was single (576) from among the heads of households living in the city of Tripoli and they were distributed on the three high-class, medium and popular areas, and after the field data collection the statistical program (SPSS) has been applied and then the study found a set of results, including:
The study found the following findings:
Through the field study findings, it became clear that there is a knowledge about the reproductive health with percentage of 98.8% where such knowledge was restricted to that the reproductive health means the family planning with percentage of 84.7% and others realize that it means the mother’s care before and during pregnancy and childbirth with percentage of 53.4%.
The findings showed that most of sample’s individuals of families’ heads are interested in being acquainted with the information relating to the reproductive health with percentage of 87.2%, and their desire is to increase the information about reproductive health with percentage of 89.2% as their reasons behind their desire that they don’t have adequate knowledge of reproductive health with percentage of 69.5% while the sources of knowledge about reproductive health represented in the doctor with percentage of 49.7% and also the family with percentage of 43.6%.
The findings of knowledge about family planning found that it means and the ways of preventing reproduction with percentage of 77.1% and the source of such knowledge represented in the family with percentage of 55.6%. In terms of using the family planning methods, the most individuals of study sample responded that they use such methods with percentage of 72.2% while the methods most used represented in condom (insulator) with percentage of 42.1%, and the contraceptive pills with percentage of 40.1%, and the reasons behind using the family planning methods were to regulate births with percentage of 85.3%.
In terms of occurrence of health problems upon usage, the most of sample’s individuals answered that they have no health problems as a result of using the family planning methods although some problems were suffered by some of them represented in weight increase or decrease with percentage of 65.1%, while the reasons for non-use represented in the desire of childbearing with percentage of 89.4 %.
The field data about maternity care demonstrated that the knowledge about it included all options wit all what it means of maternity care with percentage of 47.9%.
The data showed that most of the sample’s individuals have knowledge about genital diseases and sexually transmitted diseases with percentage of 96.9% where such knowledge is considered high because the genital diseases and sexually transmitted diseases are called ”plague of era” especially Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) which was known in the eighties of previous century as the World Health Organization dedicated a global day for it and this syndrome was paid growing interest through the media and communication whether local or global via providing services of awareness, counseling and health education for preventing such disease or reducing its spread.
The study findings revealed that there is statistically significant relationship between the extent of interest in realizing information pertaining to reproductive health and follow-up the means of media and communication.
The findings showed that there is statistically significant relationship between the level of education and knowledge about the concept of reproductive health at significance level (0.01) and it also became clear that the is an impact between the level of education and the desire to increase information about reproductive health. Also, there was a relationship between the level of education and knowledge about the maternity care while there was statistically significant relationship between the level of education and knowledge about genital diseases and sexually transmitted diseases.
As for the intermarriage, the study revealed that there is a relationship between the interest in knowing information relating to reproductive health and intermarriage at significance level (0.05). Also, it became clear that there is a relationship between the extent of knowledge about maternity care and intermarriage while there is no relationship between the intermarriage and knowledge about reproductive health concept.
The study revealed that there is a relationship between the extent of interest of the knowledge about reproductive health and the presence of hereditary diseases at significance level (0.01) and there is a relationship between the extent of the desire to increase information about reproductive health according to the presence of children with hereditary disease at significance level of (0.01).
The study findings manifested that there is a relationship between the profession and the extent of knowledge about reproductive health concept at significance level (0.01) and there is a relationship between the level of interest towards knowing information related to reproductive health and the profession and there is also a relationship between the extent of knowledge about components of reproductive health and the profession.
The study findings demonstrated that there is statistically significant relationship between the knowledge of reproductive health concept and monthly income. it was also proven from the findings that there is statistically significant relationship between the extent of using family planning methods and monthly income as well as there is a relationship between visiting the doctor upon every pregnancy and monthly income.
The final results showed that the majority of the Libyan families tend to be small-sized nuclear families using the family planning methods.