Perspectives on socio-cultural context of adolescent reproductive health behaviour in Nigeria

Ogunjuyigbe, Peter Olasupo; Adepoju, Adunola

doi:10.11564/27-2-479

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“…Consistent with previous studies (18,40,41), the number of living children had signi cant association with the use of modern contraceptive methods. Compared to married women with no child, the likelihood of utilization was higher among women with children.…”

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Predictors of Modern Contraceptive Use Among Married Women in Angola: A Population Based Study

Zegeye

Garedew

Negash

et al. 2020

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Background: Maternal mortality is unacceptability high in Sub-Saharan-African countries including Angola. Despite family planning is one of the vital intervention to reduce maternal death, the coverage of modern contraceptive use in Angola is extremely low and there is a paucity of evidence regarding current factors associated with contraceptive use in Angola. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating predictors of contraceptive use among married women in Angola using nationally representative data.Methods: The data were extracted from 2015/16 Angola Multiple Indicator and Health Survey for this study and approximately 8,033 married women aged 15 - 49 years were participated. Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression were performed using STATA version 14 software to identify the predictors, and p-value less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.Results: The coverage of modern contraceptive use among married women was 8.9%. Maternal age, women’s educational level, maternal occupation, place of residence, media exposure, number of living children, desire for more children and subnational region were main predictors for modern contraceptive use.Conclusion: Modern contraceptive use among married women in Angola was very low. Married women who were educated, wealthiest, exposed for media, who had living children, interested to have child after 2 years and those who were not interested to have at all were more likely to use contraceptive. Therefore, the government of Angola and other concerned bodies need to emphasize in empowering women through education and economy as well as dissemination of contraceptive related information through media especially for women’s living in rural settings.

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Predictors of Modern Contraceptive Use Among Married Women in Angola: A Population Based Study

Zegeye

Garedew

Negash

et al. 2020

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“…Long-term westernization in urban settings may have gradually eroded the knowledge base of this cultural practices. [28,29] Among rural respondents, the use of artificial family planning methods was common among respondents that were more culturally disposed to its use. This finding is contrary to the findings from the FGD in which the majority of the participants were more disposed positively to natural family methods; their reason been that artificial family method is an inappropriate means of limiting population size and strength which they considered very useful attributes at times of war and famine.…”

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Influence of cultural and traditional beliefs on maternal and child health practices in rural and urban communities in Cross River State, Nigeria

Ikechukwu

Ofonime

Kofoworola

et al. 2020

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Objective: The influence of cultural and traditional beliefs on key maternal and child health practices in the developing nations cannot be overemphasized. This study was carried out to determine the influence of cultural and traditional beliefs on key maternal and child health practices among rural and urban mothers in Cross River State. Materials and Methods: The study design was a comparative analytical cross-sectional study among mothers with under-five children in rural and urban households in Cross River State and the study populations comprised mothers of under-five children and traditional birth attendants in Cross River State. Sampling technique used to select respondents in the rural and urban sites was multistage sampling method and the sample size was determined using standard method of comparing two independent groups. For focus group discussion (FGD), the purposive sampling method was employed in both study sites. The study instrument was a semi-structured questionnaire and data obtained were analyzed using SPSS version 21.0. Results: Statistical analysis showed that the age of mother, husband, and marriage of women from the rural communities were significantly higher (P > 0.05) than that of women from the urban communities. Knowledge of the cultural beliefs of their people concerning maternal and child health is significantly higher in the rural communities than in the urban communities (P < 0.0001). Similarly, there was significant difference in the cultural dispositions of the rural and urban communities to maternal and child health practices (P < 0.05). The results of this study suggest that traditional beliefs influence maternal and child health-care practices in Cross River State, Nigeria. Conclusions: It is therefore concluded that cultural and traditional influences on maternal and child health practices are predominant in rural settings, with positive or indifferent cultural disposition to recommended practice being commonly associated with such practice. Maternal health education as well as education and engagement of traditional leaders are highly recommended. This should be focused at corrective reorientation toward the preference of recommended best practices that they currently do not support while sustaining the effort at encouraging other best practices.

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“…Schramm & Roberts (1971), as cited by Rabiu (Rabiu, 2008, p. 27), posit that "journalism sensitises people to available opportunities and forewarns them of possible dangers ahead." The mass media influence maternal health (Adeusi et al, 2014), sexuality and reproductive behaviour (Ogunjuyigbe & Adepoju, 2014); they are also capable of influencing maternal health awareness. The technical devices, known as the mass media transmit messages to sensitize people generally comprise the radio, television, film, book, video, newspaper, magazine and internet (Rabiu, 2008;Zamawe et al, 2015).…”

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“…Mass media exposures can promote awareness of an issue, enhance knowledge and beliefs, and reinforce existing attitudes (Calvert, 2011;Khan & Ali, 2017). The mass media is the key component of a global strategy for sustainable health issues (Ogunjuyigbe & Adepoju, 2014). The mass media play vital roles in every society as they shape culture, influence politics, affect people's attitude, play important roles by raising concerns in health especially as it relates to women, children as well as in the contemporary business world (Amoo, Ajayi, Olarewaju, Olawande & Olawole-Isaac, 2020).…”

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Women’s mass media exposure and maternal health awareness in Ota, Nigeria

Igbinoba

Soola

Omojola

et al. 2020

Cogent Social Sciences

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Perspectives on socio-cultural context of adolescent reproductive health behaviour in Nigeria

Abstract: This paper utilizes data collected using structured questionnaire, focus group discussion, Rapid Participatory Assessment (RPA)

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Predictors of Modern Contraceptive Use Among Married Women in Angola: A Population Based Study

Predictors of Modern Contraceptive Use Among Married Women in Angola: A Population Based Study

Influence of cultural and traditional beliefs on maternal and child health practices in rural and urban communities in Cross River State, Nigeria

Women’s mass media exposure and maternal health awareness in Ota, Nigeria

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