Abstract

This research aimed to evaluate the fertility know-how of Japanese schooling undergraduates who approach to come to be schoolteachers and look at similar elements. A cross-sectional questionnaire survey was performed with 252 to start with-12 months schooling undergraduates at a Japanese university. The Cardiff Fertility Information Scale (CFKS) was made use of to measure fertility information, and other products inquiring about standard reproductive information have been provided. We assessed the marriage amongst fertility knowledge and gender and the experience of upcoming life planning, among the other elements. We observed that fertility knowledge diverse. Contributors possessed a reasonably great expertise of the interactions amongst fertility and woman ageing, and smoking, but minimal awareness about the outcome of sexually transmitted infections on fertility. Male contributors answered a lot more the right way than woman individuals (p < 0.01) regarding ‘sperm production’ however, female respondents answered more accurately than male respondents (p < 0.01) regarding 'timing of menopause. In Japan, the national curriculum standard for upper secondary schools was revised in 2018, and fertility was added to the Health and Physical Education curriculum. The study results suggested that it is important to include fertility in a sex education teaching curriculum for education undergraduates to enable them to deliver fertility education as teachers in the future.