A Study To Assess The Knowledge Of Adolescent Boys Regarding Masturbation At Selected High School In Bangalore City, Karnataka, India.

[摘要] Adolescence is a period of transition between childhood and adulthood, a time of rapid physical,cognitive, social and emotional maturation as the boy prepares for manhood and the girl prepares forwomanhood. During adolescence the child’s psychosocial development passes through the Freud’s genitalperiod from approximately 11 to 16 years. Masturbation becomes almost universal at puberty in response tonormal surges in sex hormones and sexual drive. This study attempts to assess the knowledge of adolescentth boys regarding masturbation among adolescent boys studying in 10 standard at Government high school Fort,Bangalore. A descriptive research design was used to conduct the study. Subjects were 60 adolescent boysth studying in 10 standard at Government high school Fort, Bangalore, who were selected through simplerandom sampling technique. A Structured knowledge questionnaire was used to collect the data regardingknowledge on masturbation. Results show that the highest mean knowledge was found in the aspect ofanatomy and physiology of male reproductive system i.e.,77.5%. Majority (48.3%) of the respondents hadmoderate knowledge and 43.3% had inadequate knowledge. The overall mean% for knowledge score is 53.15with SD% 5.68 for knowledge. The study concluded that adolescent boys have inadequate knowledge toModerate knowledge regarding masturbation and educational programmes should be organized to impart theknowledge regarding masturbation.

[学科分类] 工程和技术（综合）

[关键词] Knowledge of adolescent boys;Masturbation.