KNOWLEDGE AND EFFECT OF LIFE STYLES ON INFERTILITY PROBLEM AMONG MARRIED WOMEN IN SELECTED CLINICS IN OFFA, KWARA STATE.

ABSTRACT Infertility affects both partners or the case is under clear.In Africa,children are the fabric of any society, without which no meaningful social and economic progress is considered worthwhile. This study seeks to determine knowledge and effect of life styles on infertility problem among married woman in selected infertility clinic in Ibadan. The study focused on the level of knowledge and effect of lifestyle on infertility among married woman in two selected infertility clinic in Offa,Kwara State. The study delimit to only infertility women. Purposive sampling technique was use to select 120 women attending infertility clinic. Findings of the study was presented using table of percentage. Findings shows that several women are still facing infertility problem after their marriage and they attributed it to spiritual problem and infertility is exclusive to women. Although,medical causes such as infections, use of unprescribed drugs ,alcohol consumption, smoking cigarettes and caffine were also known to them. A factor such as too much intake of Zobo drink is not known to majority of women attending infertility clinic. The predominate lifestyles as perceived by women attending infertility clinic are age, stress, lack of exercise,eating of junks food and excessive weight gain.However their knowledge of this lifestyle does not translate to change in behavior because many of them still smoke cigarette, takes alcohol, take too much of zobo drink,stressful engagement anduse drugs without prescription.