Republic of the Philippines

COTABATO CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Sousa Street, Cotabato City
SY. 2019-2020

“STUDENTS AWARENESS ON PREMARITAL SEX”

A RESEARCH STUDY PRESENTED TO THE FACULTY OF THE RESEARCHER BY THE

HIGH SCHOOL
OF COTABATO CITY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL -ROJAS

IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT TO THE REQUIREMENTS IN PRACTICAL

RESEARCH II

SHAID AR-ASHRAF BARAZAR

MANILYN MACALISANG
JAY ANN RICARDO
JIEHAINIE IRAG

2019

CHAPTER I
 INTRODUCTION

Background of the study

Premarital sex is any sexual activities with an opposite sex partners or a same sex
before he/she has started a marriage life. The term is usually used to refer the inter course
before the legal age of marriage. In the course of experimentation, adolescents often in
counter high risk situation, as contracting exposed to un intended pregnancy and illicit
abortions.
Premarital Sex is including information about family planning, reproduction, body
image, sexual orientation, sexual pleasure, values, decision making, communication,
dating, relationships, sexually transmitted infections and how to avoid them, and birth
control methods’ and adolescent pregnancy is responsible to this problem, this study
seeks to investigate on the influence of sex on adolescent involved in premarital sex and
adolescent pregnancy in Arusha City, Tanzania.
The Department of Education (DepEd) here has expressed alarm over the rising
cases of pregnancy among students in the last three years. Mario Bermudez, assistant
superintendent of DepEd city division said they already recorded a total of 83 cases of
teenage pregnancies in local school as of year and 2018.
Mario Bermudez said the number increased by 17 from 66 in 2016 and with a Grade 6
learner as the youngest documented case and he said they have intensified their sexuality
campaign in all public and private school from Elementary to Senior High School levels.
Bermudez said these classes focus on teaching students the proper way of caring for
themselves and the disadvantages of early engagement in sexual activities and the
resulting teenage pregnancy. He said also provide counselling sessions through trained
guidance counsellors and teachers. Bermudez said they partnered with the City
Government, through the City population office, for the training of their teachers in
Senior
High schools and guidance counsellors on sexuality education.(Brigada fm.MediaNews).

Research Questions :
 This study aims to determine the students awareness on premarital sex. Especially
it seeks to answer the following questions :

1.What is students awareness in premarital sex?

Significance of the study

The results of this study will benefit the following beneficiaries. The acceptance of
the consequences are:

Principal to understand what the value of awareness premarital sex about and to
learn what are the most important lessons of awareness and also to help young people to
understand what are sex.

Teachers through this study the teachers will be able to become conscious on what
approach to be administered to the students so that they would have a better realization
on the issue of premarital sex.

Parents through this study they will be guided on what to do to help their children
understand issues about premarital sex. They will become aware also on who in the family
had the most influence most on their children.

Students this will help them identify what are the matters related to premarital sex
to avoidance of doing those that will introduce harm to their plans will provide them
better and brighter future.

Future Researchers this research paper may enlighten them to conduct further
study on topics related to this piece.

Scope and Limitation of the Study

 This study will determine the students awareness on the premarital sex on the
senior high students of Grade Thales of CotAbato City National High School Rojas during
S. Y 2019-2020

Definition of terms

Students: The Senior High School that enrolled in Cotabato City National High School
Rojas are engaging of having premarital sex at 11 above.

Awareness :The systematic attempt to promote health awareness on the students.

Premarital sex: Is the sexual activity practiced by people before they are married.
EARLY PREGNANCY

Those young females have not yet reached adulthood and the causes of early
pregnancy vary greatly. An early pregnancy may be linked to things such as lack of
education and information about reproduction to peer pressure and early engagement
of sexual activity. Those young females often do not complete their education and they
begin a perpetual cycle in which their child may further go on to become a teenage
parents as well. (UNICEF. Org, April 8 2016).

In the Philippines, the National Youth Commission (NYC) as cited by SunStar

Cagayan de Oro (2012) said. that the rate of teenage pregnancy in the Philippines has
reached alarming proportions, having increased 70% over the past years, from 14,205 in
1999 to 195,662 in 2009. Furthermore, the annual report of the United Nations
Population funds in 2011 as cited by Philippine News Agency (2012) said that “at 53
births per 1,000 women aged between 15 and 19, the teenage pregnancy rate in the
Philippines is the highest among Asean's six major economies…” Furthermore, the
National Statistics Office, as cited by de la Cruz in 2009, presented figures in which
26.7% of women who give birth to their first child in 2010 are 15 to 19 years old.
 CHAPTER III
Methodology

This chapter presents the method in this qualitative research. This includes the
research design, role of the researcher, research participants, and the data collection. This
chapter will also explore the issue on trustworthiness which included credibility,
confirmabilty, transferability ,dependability ,ethical consideration.

Research Design
This research will employ an Focus group discussion qualitative method utilizing
structured interview. This method will be used at describing the data in words or making
interpretation on the results.
 A qualitative study is defined as an inquiry process of understanding a social or
human problem, based on building a complex, holistic picture, formed with words,
reporting detailed views of informants, and conducted in a natural setting (Cresswell,
1994 )

Role of the Researchers

In the academic undertaking ,role of the researcher in the qualitative process
included as data gatherer, transcriber, translator, encoder, and analyst of the answers of
the participants of the study.

Research Materials
The materials of the study will be questionnaires of the 1 participants of the focus
group discussion of the selected students and there are :

1.What is students awareness in premarital sex?

Data Collection and Analysis

In collecting the needed data of this study, there will be 2 questions to be asked to
the selected participants that will be transcribed with the criteria set. Answer of the
participants will serve as the data of the study. The researcher will follow the steps in
transcribing the answer of the participants.

Trustworthiness

Gay, Mills and Airasian (2006) revealed that researchers can establish the
trustworthiness of their research studies and finding addressing all Lincoln and Guba‘s
(1985) criteria for validity, namely, credibility, transferability, dependability and
confirmability. Gay, Mills and Airasian (2006) defined credibility as the ability of the
researcher to take into account all of the complexities that present themselves in a study
and to deal with patterns that are not easily explained.

Ethical Consideration

The researcher will follow the specific research guidelines mandated by CotAbato
City National High school Rojas site.

TABLES OF CONTENTS

CONTENTS PAGES

Tittle page i

Dedication ii

Acknowledgement iii

Table of contents ix

List of tables x

CHAPTER I

Background of the study 1

Research questions 2

Significance of the study 2-3

 Scope and limitation 3

Definition of terms 3

CHAPTER II

2.1 Related literature 4

Sexual related problems

Premarital sex 4

Early pregnancy

2.1.2Importance of students awareness 6

contents of premarital sex 6-

2.2 Theoretical Lens 7

CHAPTER III

Methodology 8

Research design 8

Role of the Researcher 8

Research Materials 8-9