In India there are approximately 200 million adolescents (NFHS II: 1998-99). Adolescent constitute 22.8% of population in India as on March 1 2000. Madhya Pradesh is a poor state and a large proportion of adolescents do not even complete their primary education. This illiteracy and lack of proper reproductive education may result in problems like increasing population and higher burden of sexually transmitted diseases. Recognizing the potential for young a reproductive health program for out-of-school adolescents has been started by the Government of Madhya Pradesh Ministry of Health and Family Welfare with financial and technical support from Integrated Population Development Project (IPDP) funded by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). This program involves out-of-school adolescents of five districts of Madhya Pradesh namely Rewa Satna Sidhi Panna and Chhatarpur. The present study has been carried out with the following objectives in mind: to assess the knowledge gained by adolescents who have been trained in the ARH area; to assess the attitude of adolescents toward reproductive and sexual health; and to assess the behavior of the adolescents. (excerpt)
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Kushwah et al. (2007) studied this question.