Women's attitudes and beliefs towards specific contraceptive methods in Bangladesh and Kenya.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Missing from the huge literature on women's attitudes and beliefs concerning specific contraceptive methods is any detailed quantitative documentation for all major methods in low- and middle-income countries. The objectives are to provide such a documentation for women living in Matlab (rural Bangladesh), Nairobi slums and Homa Bay (rural Kenya) and to compare the opinions and beliefs of current, past and never users towards the three most commonly used methods (oral contraceptives, injectables and implants).

Methods

In each site, 2424 to 2812 married women aged 15-39 years were interviewed on reproduction, fertility preferences, contraceptive knowledge and use, attitudes and beliefs towards family planning in general and specific methods. We analysed the data fr

SUBMITTER: Machiyama K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5941610 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature