Impact of health education on unmet needs of contraception in urban slums of Chandigarh, India

Kumar, Dinesh; Kalia, Meenu; Goel, Naveen Krishan; Sharma, MunishKumar

doi:10.18203/2320-1770.ijrcog20162119

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“…The fact that most of the respondents were from urban areas could have played an important part in increasing the level of contraceptive uptake as few of the respondents came from the rural areas. Other studies in urban areas also report higher contraceptive prevalence rates than studies carried out in both urban and rural settings [ 7 , 16 ] Awareness and knowledge of FP and contraceptives were found in this study to be very high indicating that the majority of the respondents had heard of contraceptives. Studies have identified awareness of contraceptives as the important first point in the continuum that leads to contraceptive uptake [ 6 , 15 , 17 ].…”

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Awareness and opinions regarding contraception by women of reproductive age in North-West Nigeria

Adefalu¹,

Ladipo²,

Akinyemi³

et al. 2018

Pan Afr Med J

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IntroductionNorth-west Nigeria is a traditionally high fertility setting. Increasing attention is being channeled into scaling up the various interventions that can reduce high fertility, including enhancing contraceptive uptake among women of reproductive age. However, in order to improve demand for contraception, understanding the level of awareness, knowledge and perception of WRA to contraceptive use is essential. This study examines the level of knowledge and perception of WRA to contraceptive use.MethodsA descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out in December 2016 in Kebbi and Sokoto states, North-west Nigeria. Semi-structured questionnaires were administered to 500 women between the ages of 15-49 years in 4 randomly selected local government areas across the states. Data analysis included descriptive and bi-variate statistics.ResultsOnly 43.8% claimed to be currently using a modern form of contraception; 82.4% were aware of at least one form of contraception, while health personnel formed the major source of information. The most popular and least common modern contraceptive methods were the male condom (86.8%) and vasectomy (26.6%) respectively. A higher proportion of married respondents (88.8%) than those presently single (68.8%) had good knowledge of contraceptives. Perception of contraceptives was mixed, with majority believing that contraceptives should be made available to every woman, despite stating that it contradicted their religious beliefs.ConclusionThese results underline the need for policy makers to focus on improving the knowledge of younger age groups on contraceptives and include other information channels such as peer-to-peer discussions to increase awareness.

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Awareness and opinions regarding contraception by women of reproductive age in North-West Nigeria

Adefalu¹,

Ladipo²,

Akinyemi³

et al. 2018

Pan Afr Med J

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“…According to a study on impact of health education on unmet needs of contraception in urban slums of Chandigarh India, lack of awareness of contraception methods contributes to low uptake of PPIUCD. Awareness here means that the mothers did not hear or see any advertisement about FP in the last 6 months or did not participate in any educational session about FP during last 6 months hence contributing significantly to low contraception uptake [5]. Lack of knowledge was also evident in Nyanza western Kenya in a study by Pauline et al [6] who found that lack of contraception awareness and low uptake is related to none visit to antenatal clinic where education on family planning is mostly done.…”

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Barriers to Immediate Post-Partum Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device Uptake among Mothers Delivering at Meru Hospital

Kirigia¹,

Gitonga²,

Muraya³

2019

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Global contraceptive use is at 64%, Africa lagging behind at 33.4%. Kenya has an unmet need for family planning at 23%. Hormonal injections are the most used in Africa at 9.8% and Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Devices at 3.8%. Low uptake of 3.4% was reported in Meru Hospital and lack of literature on immediate Post Partum Intra Uterine Contraceptive Device (PPIUCD) uptake. Immediate Post Partum Intra Uterine Contraceptive Device is a long acting reversible contraceptive device inserted into the uterus immediately within 48 hours after delivery. The objective was to assess Barriers to Immediate Post-Partum Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device uptake among Mothers delivering in Meru Hospital. Descriptive research design was used and a population of 289 mothers was targeted. Sample size of 74 respondents was selected using simple random sampling. Questionnaires and interview schedules were used to collect data. The collected data were entered and analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science windows version 23.0. Descriptive analysis was used to obtain frequencies and percentages. Chi-square was used to test the relationship of study variables and presented in tables. The qualitative data were analyzed thematically. The findings revealed that provider related barriers such as none provision of the services and untimely counseling for the insertion had the highest impact to low uptake (57%). Clients lacked information where 68% reported that they were not counseled. Demographic and reproductive characteristics also played a role in low uptake. Using the chi square test, there was a significant relationship, P = 0.001 between young age of the mothers, unemployment (53%), low parity (56%) and low uptake. Preference for other alternative contraceptives (25.8%) such as hormonal methods was a barrier to the uptake. Therefore, barriers to PPIUCD uptake are provider related, alternative methods of contraception and client related such as lack of information, unemployment, young age and low parity.

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Impact of health education on unmet needs of contraception in urban slums of Chandigarh, India

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Awareness and opinions regarding contraception by women of reproductive age in North-West Nigeria

Awareness and opinions regarding contraception by women of reproductive age in North-West Nigeria

Barriers to Immediate Post-Partum Intra-Uterine Contraceptive Device Uptake among Mothers Delivering at Meru Hospital

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