{"id":6153,"date":"2025-06-24T21:47:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/educational-level-and-reproductive-health-of-rural-women-in-nothern-cross-river-state-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T04:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T04:17:15","slug":"educational-level-and-reproductive-health-of-rural-women-in-nothern-cross-river-state-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ijssass.com\/journal\/educational-level-and-reproductive-health-of-rural-women-in-nothern-cross-river-state-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"EDUCATIONAL LEVEL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF RURAL WOMEN IN NOTHERN CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: <strong>EDUCATIONAL LEVEL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF RURAL WOMEN IN NOTHERN CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Original Article Link: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/view\/466' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download PDF: <a href='https:\/\/wissjournals.com.ng\/index.php\/wiss\/article\/download\/466\/428' target='_blank' rel='noopener'>Click Here to Download PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Abstract<\/h2>\n<p>This study investigated educational level and reproductive health of rural women in Northern Cross River State, Nigeria. It explored how educational level influence reproductive health outcomes. The study identified key challenges faced by rural women to include limited educational opportunities, inadequate family planning services, unsafe abortions, untreated sexually transmitted infections (STIs), poor prenatal and postnatal care, and barriers to cervical cancer screening. These challenges are compounded by economic instability, poor healthcare infrastructure, educational gaps, religious barriers, and traditional norms related to early childbearing. Utilizing a cross-sectional research design, the study targeted women of reproductive age (18-54 years) across the five Local Government Areas in the northern Cross River State. A sample size of 400 respondents were used. Quantitative data were collected through structured questionnaires and analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson Product Moment correlation Coefficient. Qualitative insights were gained through Key Informant Interviews (KIl) with healthcare professionals, community leaders, and local stakeholders, and were analyzed thematically. The study was theoretically guided by the Health Belief Model, to understand how educational level influence reproductive health decisions. Findings revealed significant relationships between education level with reproductive health outcomes. Higher educational attainment is associated with improved reproductive health, while living in rural areas. Based on the findings, the study recommends targeted interventions, including expanded educational opportunities, improved healthcare infrastructure, economic empowerment initiatives, community-based programmes promoting delayed marriage, family planning, and Social Workers advocacy for policies that can address these challenges, ensuring that interventions are tailored to the unique needs of rural women.<\/p>\n<h2>Authors<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>LAZARUS BASSEY  ABONOR (UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, NIGERIA)<\/li>\n<li>ESTHER E-C  UZOH (UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, NIGERIA)<\/li>\n<li>PHILOMINA UGBE  AMOKEYE (UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, NIGERIA)<\/li>\n<li>JOSEPH EDUM TAKWAN (UNIVERSITY OF CALABAR, NIGERIA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<p>Education, Reproductive health, Family planning, Social Worker<\/p>\n<h2>References<\/h2>\n<p>References not available for this article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article was originally published as: EDUCATIONAL LEVEL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH OF RURAL WOMEN IN NOTHERN CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[719,2548,2950],"class_list":["post-6153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-family-planning","tag-reproductive-health","tag-social-worker","wpcat-124-id"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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