Attitude Towards Family Planning

ATTITUDE TOWARDS FAMILY PLANNING

AMONG CHENCHU TRIBES

ATHMAKUR (M), KURNOOL (D), AP.

ABSTRACT: The tribal population in India is 1210.8 million according to the 2011 census. These tribes are being isolated from main stream because of their unique culture and practices and being primitive. These tribes have met with lot of challenges from national projects like dams, mines, converting of forest into industrial area and reserve forests. These tribes have been resettled in out of forest because of the said reasons. The health practices of the tribes are still old practices they are not ready for modern practices even though they can avail the facility of the primary health care centres and the community health care centres. Family planning plays

They are an aboriginal tribe whose traditional way of life has been based on hunting and gathering. Their tradition is to have children in more number in family to improve their family size. They are inveterate forest dwellers, who have, over centuries, steadfastly refused to move out of their woods regardless of the perils of such life. If patriotism be defined as love for the land, Chenchus are patriots in true spirit. The non-resident war cries on social media over imagined boundaries are no match for their raw affinity to forests where they live without basic facilities. As the chechu tribes live in a poor housing condition and they still practice old health practices they are not aware of the concept of the family planning. The chenchu tribes still have the concept of open defecation which is not a hygienic practice and unhealthy. The chenchu tribes are illiterate and they don’t have any kind of awareness about family planning. In spite of many contraceptive methods like oral contraceptive pills, emergency contraceptive pills, condoms, vasectomy etc. The chenchu tribes are not aware about the concept of family planning or they ignore the contraceptive methods which is against their tradition. Nationwide, the small family norm is widely accepted (the wanted fertility rate for India as a whole is 1.9: NFHS-3) and the general awareness of contraception is almost

 To understand the attitude of chenchu tribes on family planning

 To understand the attitude of family planning among male respondents.

 To understand the attitude of family planning among female respondents.

Area of the Study: the study was conducted among the chechu tribes of 5 mostly populated villages of atmakur Mandal, Kurnool. The universe of the study was ___ sample size of the study is ___.

Sampling Method

The researcher used probability sampling and selected simple random sampling method for data collection.

Tool for Data Collection: Structured Interview schedule was prepared using 1. Socio economic scale, authored by G.R. SHIRPURKAR. Social participation scale authored by S.N. CHOUDHARI AND S.N SINGH and Attitude towards family planning scale authored by P.K DHILLON, H.C GANGULI AND C.K. BASU. The schedule was pre tested and checked its reliability and time involved for data collection