Underwear Choice and Management by Colleges of Education Male Students in the Central Region of Ghana

Abstract

The study aimed to explore the underwear choice and management by colleges of education male students in the Central Region of Ghana. The descriptive survey design was utilized in this study. Purposive and convenient sampling were used to select the respondents for the research from the Ola College of Education, Komenda College of Education and Fosu College of Education. Thirty participants were sampled. An interview schedule was used to collect the data from the participants. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the interview schedule. The study revealed that male students often wore singlet, undershirt, vest, boxer brief, brief, boxer shorts, thongs, tanga, mankini, tights, dual pouch underwear, jockstrap and G- string. Two major factors influenced the student‟s underwear choice and these were personal factors and product factors. Some of the challenges related to their choice of underwear was discomfort, heat rashes and bruises and cuts. It was revealed that most of the students do not pay much attention to their care of underwear which leads to them facing some challenges with their choice of underwear. I therefore recommended that male students in the various Colleges of Educated need to be educated on the health implication and possible risk related to their underwear choice and how they tend to manage the underwear used by them.