A study of knowledge and attitude of adolescent girls in rural area regarding prenatal sex determination and female feticide.

Research question: What is the level of knowledge and attitude of adolescent girls from rural area regarding PNDT act and female feticide? Settings: Junior college in rural field practice area of Department of Community Medicine. Study design: Cross-sectional study. Participants: All adolescent girls from selected Junior college. Methodology: A cross sectional study is carried out in rural field practice area of medical college. A predesigned and pretested questionnaire was given to all the adolescent girls. The data was entered in Microsoft Excel and analyzed in terms of percentages. Results: Out of 300 adolescent girls 293(97.67%) had heard about PNDT act. Major source of information about PNDT act for 221 (63.50%) adolescent girls was media (TV/Newspaper/radio). 129(28.53%) adolescent girls thought that main reason for female feticide is that people consider girl child as a liability. According to 231(64.70%) adolescent girls effect of female feticide on society in future will be that girl population will be less.