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Knowledge, attitudes, and practices related to family planning and gender equity among husbands of adolescent girls in Niger.
- Source :
- Global Public Health; May2020, Vol. 15 Issue 5, p666-677, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Despite having the highest fertility rate in the world, research on Niger men and family planning (FP) is limited. We collected survey data collected in the Dosso region of Niger in 2016 from 1136 men who are the husbands of adolescent girls. We report descriptive statistics, bivariate and multivariable logistic regression on three dichotomous outcomes: (a) knowledge of modern contraceptives, (b) beliefs that only husbands should make FP decisions, and (c) current FP use. About 56% had ever heard of the pill, 6% had ever heard of an intrauterine device, and 45% had ever heard of an injectable. In our multivariable analyses, we found: a man knowing at least one modern method was significantly associated with his age, wife's education level, gender ideology, and wife's say in healthcare decisions; men's belief that men alone should make FP decisions was associated with husband's Quranic education, gender ideology, and attitudes towards violence against women; men's reports of adolescent wives' current family planning use was associated with men's Quranic education, women's involvement in her own healthcare decisions, and belief that men alone should decide about family planning. Finding suggests that interventions should target aim to reduce gender inequities to increase family planning utilisation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CONFIDENCE intervals
CONTRACEPTION
DECISION making
HEALTH attitudes
MACHISMO
MATERNAL health services
RESEARCH funding
SEX distribution
PSYCHOLOGY of Spouses
STATISTICS
WOMEN'S health
LOGISTIC regression analysis
HEALTH literacy
FAMILY planning
DATA analysis software
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ODDS ratio
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 17441692
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Global Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 142798564
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2019.1692890